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Man arrested in Broad Street fatal hit and run
BY BRADEN BUNCH
bbunch@theitem.com
The Sumter Police Department has arrested a man
in connection with a fatal
hit-and-run wreck on Broad
Street late Friday night.
Tyrone Willie Dennis, 25,
of 2895 Bend K Drive in
Sumter has been charged
with leaving the scene of an
accident resulting in death
after turning himself in to

authorities at about 5 a.m.
Saturday.
According to police, Dennis struck 54-year-old Sumter resident Isabelle Shannon with his car about 9:20
p.m. Friday as she stood
next to her disabled van on
Broad Street between the intersections of Milton Road
and Carolina Avenue. Dennis’ vehicle crashed into
Shannon’s van, as well as
another car which had

stopped to assist her.
Shannon was pronounced
dead at the scene. While
there were no
other fatalities
stemming from
the incident,
preliminary reports indicate
there was at
DENNIS
least one other
person transported from the
scene by Sumter County
Emergency Medical Services

with what are said to be
minor, non-life threatening
injuries.
Police said the suspect’s
vehicle continued west
along Broad Street for about
two blocks before he
stopped the car and ran
from the scene, leaving the
car parked on the road.
The three-block stretch of
Broad Street between Highland Avenue and Milton
Road near downtown was

blocked off for several
hours, preventing any traffic
along that portion of the
city’s major thoroughfare
while emergency responders worked the crime scene.
Sumter County Coroner
Harvin Bullock said a regulatory autopsy would be conducted but that it was clear
the cause of death was excessive blunt-force trauma.
SEE HIT AND RUN, PAGE A5

Man’s death
a mystery
5 years later
BY BRISTOW MARCHANT
bmarchant@theitem.com
Five years is a long time to
wait to find out how your
loved one died.
The family of Charles Way
knows some details, but not
enough for closure, of what
happened to
him on Aug. 18,
2008. The
66-year-old retired postal
worker was
found by his
WAY
daughter on the
floor of his Grace Lane
home, dead of a gunshot
wound to the abdomen. But
who pulled the trigger and
SEE WAY, PAGE A5

Before there were Serena
and Venus, there was Althea.
Althea Gibson was the
first black, male or female,
to rise to the stratosphere of
the international tennis
world, and now a U.S. postal stamp will commemorate
her contributions to the
sports world and civil
rights. Released on Friday,
the stamp is the 36th in the
U.S. Postal Service’s Black
Heritage Series.
Born in 1927 in Silver,
north of Summerton, Gibson was the first black tennis player to win Wimbledon, U.S. Open and French
Open when she did so in
the 1950s. She was the first
black athlete selected as the
Associated Press’ Female
Athlete of the Year, which
like her Wimbledon and
Gibson, seen here after her 1957 WimU.S. wins, she accomplished
bledon win, ultimately won that title
twice. She was also doubles
twice, the same number of times she
champion at Wimbledon
won what is now called the U.S. Open.
three times from 1956-58
She was the first black to win either
with British player Angela
title.
Buxton, American Darlene
Hard and Brazil’s Maria
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Bueno, respectively.
“In sports, you simply
Trailblazing tennis star Althea Gibson competes in the first round of Wimbledon, in
aren’t considered a real
England, on June 26, 1956. Gibson, who went on to win the French Open, the U.S. Nachampion until you have
tionals and was named the Female Athlete of the Year in 1957 by The Associated Press,
will now be honored with a stamp from the U.S. Postal Service, and a ceremony will be
SEE GIBSON, PAGE A4 held Friday at the South Carolina State Museum to commemorate the milestone.

Alice Drive Baptist to start Monday night service
BY JADE ANDERSON
janderson@theitem.com
A local church is continuing its mission of
trying “to help as many
people as possible take
their next step toward
Jesus Christ” by adding
a Monday night service.

“We’re trying to reach
people that either can’t
or won’t come on Sunday,” said Condy Richardson, outreach pastor
at Alice Drive Baptist
Church. “We baptized a
man at the 8:30 a.m.
service (Aug. 11) that
works third shift. He

wanted to be baptized
and was glad to do it,
but he said he’d be
happy when we start
Monday night worship
service.
“Then there is the
second category that
just won’t. They have a
preconceived notion of

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They had a
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and coming Sunday
morning is just icky and

off-putting.”
It’s also nice for people on vacation who
might not get back from
their trip until late Sunday afternoon, he said.
Monday Night Worship kicks off at 7 p.m.
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Graham opponent speaks to TEA Party
BY BRISTOW MARCHANT
bmarchant@theitem.com
The field of challengers to
Lindsey Graham is growing.
Since Richard Cash spoke
to last month’s meeting of the
Sumter TEA Party, two other
challengers to South Carolina’s senior senator have announced their intention to
run in next year’s Republican
primary — Charleston businesswoman Nancy Mace and
this month’s TEA Party speaker, state Sen. Lee Bright.
The senator from Spartanburg made an early campaign
stop to Thursday’s meeting at
the Elks Lodge on West Liberty Street, attempting to draw
as stark a contrast between
himself and Graham as possible.
Talking about Graham’s
often high profile in the national media and his recent
trip to Egypt, Bright said that
as senator he would be focused on South Carolina’s
needs, not “traveling the
world with John McCain on
behalf of Barack Obama
being a community organizer
for the Muslim Brotherhood.”
In his time in the state Senate, Bright said he’s received

State Sen. Lee Bright,
R-Spartanburg, speaks
Thursday to members
of the Sumter TEA
Party, laying the
groundwork for next
year’s GOP primary
campaign against
Sen. Lindsey Graham
and several other
challengers to an
incumbent perceived
as a moderate
Republican.
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top marks from the Tea Party,
a 100 percent rating from the
state Club for Growth, filibustered two state budgets and
opposed taking money from
the 2009 stimulus. In a discussion with another legislator, Bright said, his colleague
once called him “flexible as
concrete.”
Now turning his attention
to national politics, Bright
said he “thanked God for Jim
DeMint” but opposed Graham for his more moderate
tone and willingness to reach
across the aisle. In particular,
he stressed his opposition to

Graham’s support for comprehensive immigration reform, the National Security
Agency’s data-collection program and his votes to approve
Obama’s Supreme Court
nominees.
“Being an American used
to mean something,” Bright
said, “but now they’re destroying it and letting people
come in here illegally and call
themselves American.”
He contrasted Graham’s
position on the NSA with his
own position on smaller government. “He can trade his
rights away if he wants to, but

he swore an oath to uphold
the Constitution, so he can’t
give mine away.”
Bright seemed to relish the
opposition his stances draw.
His own father-in-law once
told him he couldn’t win his
race for the state Senate because he didn’t “bring home
the bacon,” and while canvassing for re-election he ran
into a voter who told Bright
he opposed him because he
voted against the man’s “pet
project.”
But to create less government and move power from
the federal government to the
states and the private sphere,
he feels the government
needs more of what Bright’s
colleague called his “flexibility.” He cited Ted Cruz, R-Texas, in the Senate and Trey
Gowdy, R-S.C., in the House
as the kind of people in Congress who can solve the nation’s problems.
“It’s not that I’m inflexible,
but if it means more government, I’m against it, and if it
means less government, I’m
for it,” he said.
Bright said he thinks
Americans can handle themselves without government
help, noting he was born be-

fore the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency,
“but I could still breathe.”
When Charleston suffered a
devastating earthquake in
1886, there was no federal
emergency response.
“The mayor just sent out
something to the papers saying ‘please send us these
items,’” he said, “then another
saying ‘don’t send any more.
We don’t need it.’”
The crowd at the Sumter
TEA Party meeting this week
seemed to like what they
heard, responding to several
of Bright’s comments with a
round of applause.
“I think he’s good for our
country,” said Shirley
O’Quinn, who when asked
what she liked about Bright,
responded “pretty much everything he said.”
Another TEA Party member, Debbie Thompson, said
she was glad to see Bright already getting attention this
early in the election cycle.
“I had heard him on Glenn
Beck,” she said, referring to a
conservative commentator
who can be heard on television and radio broadcasts.
Reach Bristow Marchant at
(803) 774-1272.

HELPING SUMTER’S STUDENTS

REPORTER’S
NOTEBOOK

Frank Baker, interim superintendent of Sumter School District, right, hands a box of school supply bags to Wilder Elementary
School Principal David Wright at the Gear Up for Learning distribution at St. Anne’s Catholic School. Gear Up for Learning, a
school supply drive coordinated by United Ministries, collected enough school supplies to fill 1,850 bags of supplies for students
in various grade levels. Churches, businesses and individuals donated the supplies and money to purchase needed items, and
volunteers from United Ministries sorted and stacked them for easy pickup by representatives from Sumter School District
schools. Many of the supplies have already been distributed to needy students during the first week of school. Parents of students in need who have not received supplies are encouraged to contact their child’s teacher or guidance counselor.

At Tuesday’s meeting of Sumter
City Council, council took action on
several items:
• Council voted to authorize City
Manager Deron McCormick to negotiate a contract with Carolina Wrecking Inc. of Columbia to demolish vacant retail buildings at 14-20 N.
Main St., which formerly housed
Maxway and Citi Trends. The resolution specifies the contract is not to
exceed $200,000. Work on the project could begin within 45 to 60 days.
• Council approved a contract
with TCO Construction of Sumter
for expansion of the Mayesville
spray field, which is owned by city
utilities. The expansion is required
to meet state Department of Health
and Environmental Control requirements and will expand capacity
from 100,000 to 125,000 gallons.
TCO’s bid on the project was
$89,115.65.
• Third and final reading approval
was given to the rezoning of two
separate undeveloped tracts totaling
3.81 acres on Lewis Road south of
McCrays Mill Road from single-family residential to multifamily residential.
• Elizabeth Shannon was appointed to a three-year term on the Housing and Economic Development
Board.
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County Council has
full Tuesday agenda
Sumter County Council
will hold a specially called
meeting Tuesday to discuss
landscaping and the capital
projects sales tax.
Council will meet in its
council chambers at 13 E.
Canal St. at 4 p.m. for the
specially called meeting,
prior to its regularly scheduled meeting at 6 p.m.
The special meeting will
be held to discuss changes
to the county’s land use ordinance.
Council had previously

discussed changes to the
ordinance requirements for
landscaping around commercial developments in
unincorporated portions of
the county.
Council members will
also receive information on
collection of the capital
projects sales tax and updates on some of the projects it funds.
At its regular meeting,
council will hold a hearing
on the repeal of certain
provisions in county ordinances for multi-county
economic development
parks, including the entire

ment into a wooded area.
S.C. Highway Patrol and
emergency medical personnel were called to the scene
Woman airlifted after
and transported the rider to
losing control of motorcycle a field off Myrtle Beach
Highway near the exit to be
A motorcyclist was airairlifted by helicopter.
lifted from an exit off InterThe rider was taken to
state 95 on Saturday after a McLeod Regional Medical
wreck in Sumter County.
Center in Florence.
At 3:18 p.m., a woman on
First responders did not
a 2002 Suzuki was reported- have to close down traffic
ly attempting to turn onto
on the interstate during the
the 135 exit onto U.S. 378/
incident.
Myrtle Beach Highway from
The rider’s condition was
the southbound lane of I-95 unclear Saturday. She was
when the rider lost control
reportedly wearing a heland went down an embank- met.

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S.C. Mental Health to use land sale cash for repairs
COLUMBIA (AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The
South Carolina Department
of Mental Health will spend
the $15 million it gets for
selling land in downtown
Columbia for building and
equipment maintenance instead of directly on patient
care.
But the agency said the
money will indirectly help

patients because the department has to do the repairs and that money would
have been taken out of the
budget for patient care had
the land not been sold.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Bull Street campus
is eventually going to go
away. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s superfluous to our
mission. The truth is the
campus costs us money

weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d rather be spending on
services,â&#x20AC;? Mark Binkley, a
mental health department
deputy director who negotiated the sales contract, said.
But mental health advocates think the agency is
missing a chance to improve care after years of cutbacks.
The agency has lost $87

million in funding since 2008.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I would hate for all that
money to go to capital
needs when there is such a
need for more psychiatrists,
more psychiatric nurses. I
would rather see it go to
services than bricks and
mortar,â&#x20AC;? said Bill Lindsey,
director of the state chapter
of the National Alliance on

Mental Illness.
The agency is selling 165
acres to Greenville developer Bob Hughes.
The $15 million will be
paid in installments over
seven years.
The Department of Mental Health will also be given
a part of any profit if the
land is sold.

POLICE BLOTTER
CHARGES:

Jermaine D. Sweat,
35, of 70 Lakeshore
Drive, was arrested
Thursday and charged
with two counts of
pointing a firearm. On
Aug. 10, Sweat reportedly pointed a handgun at two victims
during an argument in
the 3000 block of Artesian Drive.
Quianna M. Rembert, 28, of 23 Harrison
St., was arrested
Thursday and charged
with accessory to a felony. On Aug. 10, Rembert reportedly pulled
a gun from under her
car seat and handed it
to a suspect who
pointed the weapon at
two victims during an
argument in the 3000
block of Artesian
Drive.
Allen Preston Truesdale, 49, of 517 Coachman Drive, Apt. B, was
arrested Wednesday
after he was stopped
on McCrays Mill Road
near Pinewood Road
at 3:36 p.m. and
charged with driving
under suspension,
fourth offense, and
being a habitual traffic
offender.
ASSAULT:

At 8:05 p.m. Thursday, police responded
to a fight at the corner
of Atlantic and Manning avenues. A

45-year-old man told
police two 51-year-old
men attacked him and
he fought them off
with a stick. The other
two men said the man
came after them with
the stick. One of the
men was reportedly
bleeding from a cut to
his cheek and had
loose teeth, and the
other man had several
lumps on his head.
They declined medical
treatment.
SHOOTING:

At 4:02 a.m. Thursday, several shots were
reportedly fired into a
home in the 1000
block of Marilyn Avenue. Eleven 9 mm shell
casings, eight .40-caliber shell casings, two
complete .40-caliber
rounds and 28 .223
rifle casings were recovered from the roadway. Four bullet fragments were recovered
from inside the home,
which had several bullet holes in the front.
No one was inside the
home at the time of
the shooting.
VANDALISM:

Someone entered a
church building in the
200 block of North
Main Street between 3
and 6 p.m. Thursday
and forced open four
doors in the teaching
area. Nothing was re-

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ported stolen, but the
damage to the doors is
estimated at $600.
STOLEN PROPERTY:

A silver 2006 Chrysler 300 was reportedly
stolen from the 1100
block of Narrow Paved
Road in Lynchburg between 5:30 a.m. and
5:15 p.m. Tuesday. The
car is valued at
$15,000.
Two air-conditioning units were reportedly stolen from the
3000 block of Broad
Street between July 20
and 7:10 p.m. Wednesday. The units are valued at $12,000.
A 50-inch flatscreen TV, an Xbox
360, a Remington 12gauge shotgun, a
Ruger 257 rifle, a
.22-caliber bolt-action
rifle and various video
games were reportedly
stolen from the 1000
block of Marilyn Avenue between 6 p.m.
Wednesday and 7:30
a.m. Thursday. The
items are valued at
$4,215.
A 47-inch flat-screen
TV, two laptop computers, a PlayStation 3,
eight fitted ball caps, a
jewelry box and a wallet
were reportedly stolen
from the 2600 block of
Kolb Road between
12:30 and 1:30 p.m.
Thursday. The items are
valued at $3,225.

A 50-inch TV, a
PlayStation 3, a PlayStation 2, 10 video
games and a DVD
player were reportedly
stolen from the first
block of South Milton
Street between 6 and
8:30 p.m. Thursday.
The items are valued
at $2,600.
An Xbox, a PlayStation 3, a gold tennis
bracelet, a 19-inch flatscreen TV, a laptop
computer with a
brown HP laptop bag
and a black suitcase
were reported stolen
from the 1000 block of
Wellington Road at
9:27 p.m. Wednesday.
The items are valued
at $1,870.
A 13-inch flatscreen TV and a black
CD player were reportedly stolen from the
first block of Middle
Street between 10 a.m.
and 4:05 p.m. Monday.

The items are valued
at $600.
A black diamondback .380 handgun
and a wallet were reported stolen from a
truck in the 300 block
of Pinewood Road at
12:59 a.m. Friday. The
items are valued at
$560.
Two Garmin GPS
units and a Larsen 9
mm handgun were reported stolen from
three vehicles parked
in the 800 block of Colony Road at 7:46 a.m.
Tuesday. The items are
valued at $420.
A Bersa .380-caliber
handgun was reported
stolen from an unlocked car in the 1300
block of Goodson

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RECOVERED PROPERTY:

At 3:15 p.m. Wednesday, a red Chevrolet
Camaro was reportedly
found unoccupied and
partially in the roadway
in the 1200 block of
East Brewington Road.
It was towed from the
scene.
EMS CALLS:

On Thursday, Sumter County Emergency
Medical Services responded to 61 calls.
Fifty-four were medical calls, four were
motor vehicle wrecks,
and three were listed
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defended your title successfully,â&#x20AC;? Gibson told The
Item in 1999. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Winning it
once can be a fluke. Winning it twice proves you
are the best.â&#x20AC;?
Gibsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stamp was
unveiled Friday by the
U.S. Postal Service at a
ceremony in Flushing,
N.Y. The stamp of the
woman already featured
on Sports Illustrated covers and Wheaties boxes
will be commemorated
locally at 1 p.m. Friday by
the South Carolina State
Museum on Gervais
Street in Columbia.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are proud and
elated that Althea has
been honored with a U.S.
postal stamp,â&#x20AC;? said second cousin Don Felder in
an email to The Item. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It
places her in the company of the many other
great Americans.â&#x20AC;?
The woman who became known as â&#x20AC;&#x153;The
Jackie Robinson of Tennisâ&#x20AC;? was born Aug. 25,
1927, in Silver, north of
Summerton, to sharecroppers working plots in
the small, rural community. At 3, along with
brother â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bubbaâ&#x20AC;? and sister Mildred, Gibson and
her family moved to Harlem, N.Y.
At 14, Gibson caught
the interest of Lynchburg,
Va., doctor and tennis instructor Dr. Walter Johnson as she was training.
Johnson would later train
the late Arthur Ashe, another black tennis great.
Before Gibsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rise to
stardom in the sport,
black players were forced
to participate in the
American Tennis Association instead of the inter-

nationally recognized,
white National Lawn Association. Through 1956,
Gibson dominated the
all-black circuit, winning
her first of 10 straight
championships in 1947.
She entered her first
U.S. Open in 1950, after
four-time national champion Alice Marble wrote
an article in American
Lawn Tennis (ALT) magazine that the only reason
for Gibsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exclusion
was bigotry. She told ALT
players that if Gibson offered a challenge to the
best in their association,
that challenge should be
addressed on the court.
That year, Gibson
made it to the second
round of competition at
the U.S. Open, and she
competed in her first
Wimbledon tournament
a year later. She won her
first major title, the
French Open, in 1956, following it with her Wimbledon and U.S. Open titles for two years afterward. She was ranked the
No. 1 female tennis player
in the world during that
stretch.
Retiring after her Wimbledon wins, she recorded an album, appeared in
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Horse Soldiersâ&#x20AC;? with
John Wayne and toured
with the Harlem Globetrotters, playing exhibition tennis matches during their shows. She also
joined the Ladies Professional Golf Association
tour in 1964, competing
for 14 seasons, though
she never rose above a
second-place finish.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;She was an athlete
not unlike (Olympian and
LPGA founding member)
Babe (Didrikson Zahirias),â&#x20AC;? said former LPGA
standout Judy Rankin in
an Item file story. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She
came along during a difficult time in golf, gained

SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 2013

the support of a lot of
people and quietly made
a difference.â&#x20AC;?
The late Sen. Alex Harvin, D-Summerton, told
The Item in 2002 that Gibson remained devoted to
her home county, although she only lived
there for three years.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Whenever somebody
would ask her where she
was from, she would say
with a smile on her face
and pride in her heart
that she was from Silver,
South Carolina,â&#x20AC;? he said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know where
that was, that was your
problem.â&#x20AC;?
Felder said his cousin
â&#x20AC;&#x153;always wanted to be
somebody.â&#x20AC;? Gibson herself wrote that in her autobiography.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The issuance of this
postal stamp validates
that Althea Gibson is
somebody,â&#x20AC;? Felder said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Having to enter tennis
courts through back
doors, beating her opponents and then again having to exit from back
doors, she (still) remained
focused and went on to
excel in tennis. She is an
inspiration to our family
and a role model to the
youth and adults in our
family.â&#x20AC;?
Reach Robert J. Baker
at (803) 774-1211.

Silver native
Althea
Gibson, the
first black
woman to
win a
Wimbledon
tennis title,
will be the
subject of
the 36th
stamp in
the Black
Heritage
Series.
Gibson,
who died
in 2003,
twice
captured
the Wimbledon and
U.S. titles in
her sport.

WAY
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why remains a mystery.
There were no signs of
forced entry, and nothing
in the house was stolen.
Way even had a gold
bracelet and watch still
on his wrist. Wayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s neighbors didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t report seeing
or hearing anything unusual. For half a decade,
thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s where the case has
stood.
Last Sunday, family
members ran an ad
marking the anniversary
along with a call for anyone with information
about the case to come
forward. Information
leading to an arrest and
conviction of Wayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s killer
could earn a reward of
$15,000.
Born and raised in
Sumter, Way joined the
Army out of school and
was stationed in Germany in the early 1960s.
When he came back to
the U.S., he worked for 30
years with the Sumter
Post Office. In retirement,
he started a side business
buying and selling used
cars from home.
His wife, Dora, passed
away from cancer in
2006, but he was always
in touch with his two
daughters, five grandchildren and his siblings
living nearby.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We stayed close, and
with my mom being sick,
we were there for each
other,â&#x20AC;? said daughter
Robin Miles. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He was just
a good man. He didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
meet a stranger, and he
took good care of my
mom until her death.â&#x20AC;?
Wayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sister Dotsy
Prescott spoke to her
brother the night before
his death, letting him
know sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be staying
one more night at the
beach before driving
back to Sumter. When
she got home the next
day, Prescott tried to call
him between 3:30 and 4
p.m. but couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get
through.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I tried his house
phone and his cellphone
and he didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t pick up,
and he usually answers
one of those,â&#x20AC;? she said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;So I called Robin and
said â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;you need to check
on him. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not answering his phone.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?
A short time later,
Prescott received another call from her niece.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;All she said was â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I
need you nowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;,â&#x20AC;? Prescott
remembers.
Way was home alone
when he was shot sometime between 11:30 a.m.,
the last time a call was
made from the homeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
phone, and 4:30 p.m.,
when his daughter
found him, lying face
down in the laundry
room near the back
door. Family members
who quickly gathered at
the house initially
thought he might have
died from natural
causes.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d been complaining of stomach pains
and they thought he may
have collapsed,â&#x20AC;? said Lt.
Robert Burnish with the
Sumter County Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
Office. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They called the
coroner and EMS out
there, and when they
were moving him they
saw the bullet wound.â&#x20AC;?
Burnish was one of
the sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deputies
who responded after it
became apparent the
house was a crime
scene. Only a little physical evidence was recovered: a shell casing from
a small-caliber handgun
found in the living room
and an â&#x20AC;&#x153;indentationâ&#x20AC;? on

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A billboard is seen
previously advertising
the search for Charles
Wayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s killer. Family
members recently
marked the five-year
anniversary of the day
the retired postal
worker was discovered shot to death in
his home. The case
remains open.
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the metal portion of a
screen door leading to
the car port, which investigators suspect
might have been caused
by a gun firing.
With that information, law enforcement
developed a rough theory of what happened.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Either he met somebody he knew at that
door, or he surprised
somebody at the door
who was trying to break
in,â&#x20AC;? Burnish said.
Way was apparently
shot at the door to the
car port, which family
members found open at
the time they arrived. Injured, he then ran
through the house, trying to reach the back
door on the other side of
the laundry room. He
never made it. Prescott
remembers him still
having the TV remote in

his hand when he was
found.
The side door led into
an open-air car port
where Way had a couple
of cars he was working
on to resell. Anyone
could have walked up to
the door from the street.
The killing was devastating for Miles, especially coming so close
after the loss of her
mother. For years afterward, she worries the
killer is someone she
knows.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The average person,
they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think this can
happen to them,â&#x20AC;? she
said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but it can happen
right in the comfort of
your own home.â&#x20AC;?
Recently, Burnish went
back over the case and is
working with State Law
Enforcement Division
agents to review the evidence and talk again with

potential witnesses and
others who knew Way.
His family appreciates the
continued effort to bring
the case to a close.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We try not to bug
them,â&#x20AC;? Prescott said,
â&#x20AC;&#x153;but we want them to
know weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re very much
interested in having this
solved ... we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want
them to forget about it.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Somebody knows
something,â&#x20AC;? Burnish
said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re asking
them to help.â&#x20AC;?
Anyone with information about the killing of Charles Way is
asked to call the Sumter
County Sheriffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Office
at (803) 436-2000 or
Crime Stoppers, which
is also offering a reward
in the case, at
1-888-CRIME-SC (2746372) or (803) 4362718. All callers can remain anonymous.

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was one of the worst Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever seen,â&#x20AC;?
said the coroner.
Investigators had identified Dennis as the
suspect late Friday night, obtained an arrest
warrant and were in the process of searching
for him when he turned himself in to police.
Dennis could face additional charges. He is
being held at the Sumter-Lee Regional Detention Center pending a bond hearing, scheduled for Monday.
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N.Y. sanctuaries take in animals escaping slaughter
home to nearly 90 store- ly fed and
front slaughter markets,
cared for,”
a number that has near- said Imran
NEW YORK — WinLucky Lady, a sheep, stands in 2008 in a meadow at Farm
ly doubled in the last
Uddin, owner of the
Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, N.Y., where she was brought in
ston escaped death to
two decades because of
Madani Halal live mar2007 after roaming the streets of New York’s South Bronx
find a piglet’s paradise.
an influx of immigrants
ket in Queens’ Ozone
after her escape from an auction house.
The little piggy found accustomed to cooking
Park neighborhood. As
wandering this summer with freshly butchered
he speaks, a young goat
along a bustling Queens meats.
pokes its nose through a
boulevard is among
Reading signs and
chain-link fence and
hundreds
prices often playfully nibbles at his
of animals
written in
shirt.
— includArabic, HeA retail menu scribing cows,
brew or
bled on a blackboard
sheep,
Spanish,
one day included a
goats and
customers
young roasting chicken
chickens
typically
at $1.65 a pound, pigeon
— that apchoose
— also called squab —
parently
their dinner for $8 apiece, and a
managed
from birds
water duck for $13.
to flee in
fluttering in
None of Uddin’s anirecent
cages or
mals has ever escaped,
years from
goats and
but he said some from
New York
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rounding residential
growing
pens. In
neighborhood have gotnumber of
separate
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spaces, anislaughter
mals are
markets.
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holds a piglet, later named fast speed
amid
Winston, on July 26 after he following
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was found wandering alone the halal Iscars and
down College Point Boule- lamic pracbusy pevard, in the Queens borough tice or kodestrians
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with a
tradition.
beautiful reward for
“Halal to me means
those lucky enough to
more than just the
survive: a trip to an anislaughter; it starts on
mal sanctuary in the
the farm, and we make
wide open spaces north
sure animals are properof the city where they
can live out their days
without fear of becoming someone’s dinner.
“None of them come
to us friendly,” said
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the Farm Sanctuary,
which has taken in more
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and they’re very scared
and high-strung, running to get away.”
The case of Winston,
so named by newspaper
readers who followed
his fate, is hardly unusual. The little porker had
apparently been on the
lam for days in an area
with many storefront
slaughterhouses before
he was caught by city
animal-control officers.
They turned him over to
the sanctuary, and his
home now is a five-hour
drive and a world away,
on a 175-acre farm in
Watkins Glen, where he
is free to frolic.
“Winston is doing
magnificently well,”
Coston said, adding that
he “spends his nights
rooting in the dirt and
mud and spinning and
playing with his best
friend Ruby, a piglet
who recently fell off a
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Is Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dream reality? In changed city, yes and no
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.
(AP) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; When he
boarded a Greyhound
bus on his way to
Princeton University,
Glennon Threatt promised himself heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d never
come back here. As a
young black man, he
saw no chance to fulfill
his dreams in a city
burdened by the ghosts
of its segregated past.
Helen Shores Lee
left Birmingham years
earlier, making the
same pledge not to return. A daughter of a
prominent civil rights
lawyer, she wanted to
escape a city tarnished
by Jim Crow laws â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
the â&#x20AC;&#x153;whiteâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;coloredâ&#x20AC;? fountains, the
That was the Birlegislation.
segregated bus seating, mingham of the past.
This is the Birmingthe daily indignities
The city that King con- ham of the present:
she rebelled against as
demned for its â&#x20AC;&#x153;ugly
The airport is named
a child.
record of brutality.â&#x20AC;?
after a fearless civil
Both
The city
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er, she as a judge â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in
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ica.
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So has Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dream
This week, as the
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Legal and social barriers that barred black
people from schools
and jobs fell long ago,
but economic disparity
persists.
Blacks and whites
work together and dine
side by side in restaurants, but usually donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
mingle after 5 p.m.
Racial slurs are rare,

but suspicions and
tensions remain.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think any of
us would deny that
there have been significant changes in Birmingham,â&#x20AC;? Shores Lee
says. King would be
proud, she adds, but
â&#x20AC;&#x153;he would say thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a
lot more work to be
done.â&#x20AC;?

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OPINION
THE ITEM

SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 2013
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Elmore Leonard left out the boring parts

E

lmore Leonard, one of
America’s greatest writers, died this past week
at age 87. He often said he
hated literature, but he
changed modern American
fiction forever by shaping the
way many great modern writers use dialogue and develop
characters.
He left behind more than
40 novels, countless stories
that appeared in
pulp western
magazines beginning in the early
1950s, and dozens of screenplays. Put him in
LEONARD
“The Google,”
and you’ll find all
sorts of interesting stories
about his life and work.
As Janet Maslin noted in
The New York Times, “He was
the most influential, widely
imitated crime writer of his
era, and his career was a long
one: more than 60 years.”
What follows are com-

pletely random excerpts from
some of his novels that just
happen to be sitting on my
bookshelf. Open any one of
them, put your finger on the
page and read. He is the original, and the best.
• A description of a female
character named Edie Broder
in “The Hunted,” 1974:
“Rosen first noticed the tourist lady on Friday, the day before the fire. He saw her and
said to himself, New York.....
Rosen, watching her walk
past the cafe, liked her thin
legs, her high can, and her
sensible breasts.”
• Two armed robbers
named “Stick” and “Frank”
make a getaway in “Swag,”
1976: “The red-and-blue
flashing squad car with its
awful who-who wail almost
lost it taking the corner, got itself straightened out passing
the bank and the Chinese
place, and swerved into the
Food Lanes parking lot as
Stick eased the Nova around

COMMENTARY
the far corner of the restauscribed Palm Beach as “an isrant, cut through the open
land off the coast of the Unitblacktop area behind the
ed States.” Bob Gibbs agreed
Michigan National Bank, and one hundred percent. Cross
hit Southfield already doing
Lake Worth east and you
thirty, not fast enough
were in a different
to attract attention but
country, the top end
enough to get them
of the Gold Coast
out of there.”
where the rich and fa• The opening of
mous lived. But you
“Up In Honey’s
know what? Go the
Room,” 2007: “Honey
other way, drive west
phoned her sister-inout beyond Twenty
Graham
law Muriel, still living
Mile Bend and, man,
OSTEEN
in Harlan County,
you were in a different
Kentucky, to tell her
world, the Glades, botshe’d left Walter Shoen, calltomland America with a
ing him Valter, and was on
smell of muck and fish and
her way to being Honey Deal
half a million acres of sugaragain. She said to Muriel, “I
cane off on the left side of the
honestly thought I could turn road there.”
him around, but the man still
• From “Trouble at Rindo’s
acts like a Nazi. I couldn’t
Station,” Argosy magazine,
budge him.”
1953: “The screen door
• From “Maximum Bob,”
slammed. Corsen remem1991: “There was a judge
bered the two men in range
friend of Bob Gibbs, now reclothes then. They must have
tired from the bench, who de- just gone in. Then he was

looking at Katie, at the expression changing on her face,
eyes alive, looking at something behind him. He turned
sharply. Standing a few feet
away was one of the men in
range clothes. He stood with
his legs spread, as if bracing
himself, a short man in faded
Levi’s, holding a pistol dead
on Corsen’s stomach.”
• From “Killshot,” 1989:
“Donna started talking about
Elvis. She said, ‘If Elvis was
Jesus, you know who I think
some of his apostles would
be? I think Engelbert would
be one. I think Tom Jones
would be one. And I think,
going way back, the Jordanaires and the Blackwood
Brothers. Who do you think?’
Armand said he’d never
thought about it before.”
Graham Osteen is EditorAt-Large of The Item. He can
be reached at graham@theitem.com; on Twitter @GrahamOsteen; or at grahamosteen.com.

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Victim in chief is no role for a president

W

ASHINGTON — If I
had a son, he would
look like Christopher Lane, the 22-year-old
Australian baseball player
shot dead while jogging in
Oklahoma.
If I had a father, he’d look
like Delbert Belton, the
88-year-old World War II veteran beaten to death in Spokane, Wash.
And yes, if I had a son, he’d
look like the white teenager
who police say drove the getaway car in the Oklahoma killing.
These are all true statements if we identify ourselves
and each other only by the
color of our skin, which, increasingly seems to be the
case — including our own
president.
Barack Obama helped lead
the way when he identified
himself with Trayvon Martin,
shot by George Zimmerman
in the neighborhood-watch
catastrophe with which all are
familiar. Stepping out from his
usual duties of drawing meaningless red lines in the Syrian
sand, the president splashed
red paint across the American

landscape:
Apparently, store policy re“If I had a son, he’d look
quires that an attendant be
like Trayvon.”
upstairs when a shopper is.
In so saying, he essentially
The way department store
gave permission for all to
clerks follow me around,
identify themselves by race
you’d think my face was plaswith the victim or the actered on a “Wanted for Shopcused. How sad as we aplifting” poster. This is espeproach the 50th anniversary
cially so if I’m dressed like a
of the march Martin Luther
slob.
King Jr. led on Washington
In my 20s, I conducted an
that even the president resorts experiment when I had the
to judging not by the
opposite problem. No
content of one’s charclerk would help me. It
acter but by the color
occurred to me that my
of his skin — the anratty jeans and T-shirt
tithesis of the great
might be the problem,
dream King articulatso I went home,
ed with those words.
changed into a dress,
Obama went even
and returned. You’d
Kathleen
further after the Zimhave thought I was a
PARKER
merman verdict, exhoney bun in a bee
pressing his self-idenhive. Just for fun, I
tification not as leader of a ra- bought a $38,000 purse.
cially diverse nation — or as
(That’s a joke.)
the son of a white mother —
Was the clerk prejudiced?
but as a black man who reYou bet. But like it or not, the
members women clutching
way we present ourselves to
their purses tighter when he
the world affects the way we
entered an elevator, and being are treated. Thus it has always
followed in department stores. been. I’m betting that few
All because he was black?
women today clutch their
Even today, I am followed
purses tighter when a wellwhen I go to the second floor
groomed man, black or white,
of a boutique in Georgetown.
enters the elevator. A punk

wearing his britches around
his rump and telegraphing attitude? Even Jesse Jackson —
or Eminem — might feel a tingle of discomfort.
Nothing is fair about profiling, but one’s treatment by a
stranger is not always necessarily linked to one’s racial or
ethnic history. Sometimes it’s
just ... you.
The killings leading the
news the past several days
have been horrific in their apparent randomness. Were
they racially motivated? Had
the perps been white and the
victims black, would Obama
have identified with them?
More to immediate concerns,
did the president’s identification with Martin nourish the
killing passions of these
youths?
Hard to say with any certainty, though one of those
charged in the Oklahoma
shooting apparently tweeted
some messages earlier this
summer that unmistakenly
convey racial animus toward
whites. They might be dismissed as Twitter nonsense —
but for the body.
We do know this much for

certain: Had the races been
reversed, the usual suspects
would have had much to say.
White teens beat up an elderly
black veteran and leave him
for dead? White teens shoot a
talented black athlete visiting
from another country?
Riots.
I make these observations
not to further exacerbate a
problem but in the hope that
we can stop this craziness
before things escalate. The
conversation about race that
pundits keep insisting we
need to have should end
where it began. Maybe in his
remarks on the 50th anniversary of the greatest peaceful
demonstration in history,
Obama can remind Americans that if we had sons and
fathers, they’d look like
Christopher Lane and Delbert Belton, as well as Trayvon Martin.
Victim in chief is no role for
a president.

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 2013

HELEN K. DETWILER
SUMMERTON â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Helen â&#x20AC;&#x153;Boogaâ&#x20AC;? Kennedy
Detwiler, 93, widow of
Harold Walker Detwiler
Sr., died Friday, Aug. 23,
2013, at Lake Marion
Nursing Facility.
Services will be announced by Stephens
Funeral Home & Crematory, 304 N. Church St.,
Manning. (803) 435-2179.
www.stephensfuneralhome.org
WILLIAM T. ENGLISH Jr.
Bishop William
Thomas English Jr., 74,
of Sumter, died Tuesday,
Aug. 20, 2013, peacefully
while sleeping. He was
the husband of Mildred
Streater English and pastor/founder of Greater
St. Paul Non-Denominational Church. Born July
23, 1939, he was the son
of Annie B. English and
the late William Thomas
English Sr.
After graduating from
Lincoln High School of
Sumter, he entered the
United States Army,
where he was stationed
in Fort Jackson; Lido
Beach Army Base, Long
Island, N.Y.; Fort Devens,
Mass.; and Squantum,
Mass.
After leaving the
Army, he entered Plus
School of Business of
Boston, Mass., where he
developed and mastered
the skill of computer
technology. In 1968,
English was ordained
into the ministry at Holy
Tabernacle Church of
God in Christ Apostolic
of Boston. He and his
pastor, Bishop Joe L.
Smith, joined forces and
formed the gospel duo
the Gospel Encores and
recorded their debut
album â&#x20AC;&#x153;Oh Blessed Starâ&#x20AC;?
on HOB Records in
1973.
In 1974, while yet residing in Boston, he
began his radio ministry
by recording his radio
broadcast â&#x20AC;&#x153;Lifeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Railway
to Heavenâ&#x20AC;? which aired
on WWDM-FM. This
same radio broadcast is
still heard on six radio
stations which reach the
entire United States and
many foreign countries,

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time,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So the service will be a little shorter,
in the 50-minute range.â&#x20AC;?
The Monday night service will be very similar to
the contemporary Sunday
morning services. The
message will be the same
but shorter, Richardson
said, and if an important
or special event took
place that Sunday morning such as communion,
then it will take place
again that Monday evening. Offering will also be
taken up.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have heard people
say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;well if you want to go
to church you can find a
way to get there,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? Clay

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House, Florence. Funeral arrangements
are incomplete and
will be announced by
Wilson Funeral Home,
403 S. Main St., Bishopville.

including some in Africa.
In 1975, English was
elevated to the office of
bishop at Holy Tabernacle. Soon after, following
divine instruction, Bishop English relocated his
family to Sumter and
founded Greater St. Paul
Non-Denominational
Church in October 1976.
In 1977, the Bill English
Evangelistic Association
was formed and assisted
the funding of the radio
broadcast and other
areas of ministry.
In October 1977,
Bishop English purchased the building
where Greater St. Paul
now sits, saving it and
the accompanying residence next door from
demolition. Because of
this act, both buildings
are now part of the historic tour of Sumter,
identifying the site
where the Kendall Institute, the school where
Mary McLeod Bethune
served as instructor,
once existed.
In 1986, the Bishop
W.T. English Memorial
Park was established in
Sumter County. During
much of the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s and
â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s, Bishop English and
his entire BEEA Crusade
Team were on the road
holding crusades across
the Southeast. In 1988,
Bishop English began
his own record label,
BEEA Records, and his
own music publishing
company, BEEA Music,
as an avenue to produce
and protect the original
recordings of the BEEA
Crusade Choir and other
artists within the church.
Eight projects were released under the label.
At the time of his
passing, Bishop English
served as chief adviser
for the Christian private
school William Thomas
Academy, which was
named in his honor.
In addition to his
wife, Bishop English
leaves to cherish his
memory: mother Annie
B. English; son Geoffrey
G. Streater Sr.; daughters
Sheryl E. (Ronald) Eady,
Sheila E. (James) Coplin
and Shonda L. English,
all of Sumter; sister Bar-

bara E. Dillard of Sumter; granddaughters Sequita L. Streater of Columbia, Tenesha C.
Streater of Charlotte and
JaShema L. Coplin of
Florence; grandsons
Geoffrey Streater Jr. of
Rock Hill and James
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Treâ&#x20AC;? Coplin III of Columbia; two greatgranddaughters; one
great-grandson; a spiritually adopted daughter,
Connie James Pearson;
and a host of aunts, uncles, cousins and countless loved ones he has
served as pastor and
radio pastor down
through the years.
He was preceded in
death by his father, paternal grandparents
Robert and Essie English, maternal grandparents Sam Baker and Lucille Muldrow Baker and
sister Doris A. English.
A musical tribute to
Bishop W.T. English will
take place at 5 p.m.
today at Greater St. Paul
Non-Denominational
Church, 200 Watkins St.,
at the corner of South
Harvin Street in Sumter.
Public viewing will be
held from 2 to 7 p.m.
today at Jobâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mortuary.
Bishop English will be
placed in the church at
noon Monday, Aug. 26,
2013, for viewing until
the hour of service.
Funeral services will
be held at 2 p.m. Monday, Aug. 26, 2013, at
Greater St. Paul Non-Denominational Church,
with the Rev. Marion H.
Newton officiating, Elder
James Johnson, eulogist.
Interment will follow
with military honors in
the Bishop W.T. English
Memorial Park, 3755
Congruity Road, Sumter.
Family is receiving
friends at the home, 405
S. Harvin St., Sumter.
Online memorials
may be sent to the family at jobsmortuary@sc.
rr.com or visit us on the
web at www.jobsmortuary.net.

Smith, lead pastor, said in
his Aug. 18 sermon. â&#x20AC;&#x153;According to the 2013 Bureau of Labor Statistics, 34
percent in the United
Statesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; population works
during the weekends.
Now about 18 percent of
those work because they
have two jobs. They have
a weekday job and a
weekend job.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Well what does that
look like in Sumter? The
Sumter workforce has
about 40,000. If 34 percent of our workforce
works on the weekend â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
and I think itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fair to say
thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s probably accurate
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that means we would
have 12,475 people working the weekend and
would find it very difficult
to come to church ...
Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s why weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing
Monday night worship.â&#x20AC;?

Discussion of a fourth
in Little Rock, Ark., that
service for the church
had been doing a Monbegan at the end of 2012,
day night service for nearRichardson said. Memly five years, Richardson
bers of the
said. They
churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adsaw a serministration WANT TO GO?
vice and
considered
had a
WHAT: Monday Night Worship
Saturday
chance to
WHEN: Starting 7 p.m. Sept. 9
nights but
talk to the
WHERE: Alice Drive Baptist Church,
1305 Loring Mill Road, Sumter
were conchurch
FOR MORE: Contact the church at
cerned
leaders to
(803) 905-5200 or info@adbc.org.
about posget some
sible sports
ideas about
conflicts. They also
the steps theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d need to
looked at Sunday evetake.
nings or Tuesdays and
Dress rehearsals at the
Thursdays as they already
have Wednesday night
classes, but those nights
seemed booked with
other special programs or
rehearsals.
So they considered
Monday night. Richardson and another pastor
traveled to a large church

GREGORY McFADDEN
Gregory McFadden,
52, died Friday, Aug. 23,
2013, at the Medical
University of South Carolina.
Born on March 30,
1961, in Sumter County,
he was the son of Theola Evans McFadden.
The family will receive friends and relatives at her home, 18 W.
Moore St., Sumter.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete
and will be announced
by Williams Funeral
Home Inc.
CARRIE MICKENS
Carrie Mickens died
Wednesday, Aug. 21,
2013, in Newark, N.J.
Born in Sumter
County, she was the
daughter of Joe and
Marry Mickens.
The family will receive friends and relatives at her home, 4265
Cotton Acres Road,
Sumter.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete
and will be announced
by Williams Funeral
Home Inc.
MAY BELLE RUTH
Funeral services for
May Belle Ruth, 81, who
died on Aug. 22, 2013,
will be held on Monday,
Aug. 26, at New Zion
AME Church. Interment
will follow in the church
memorial garden. The
family is receiving
friends at 807 Scott
Lane, Bishopville.
Services are entrusted to New Life Funeral
Services LLC of Bishopville. Online condolences may be sent to www.
newlifefuneralservice.
com.
VERNA UBBEN
MANNING â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Verna
Ubben, 97, widow of
Wilbert Ubben, died
Sunday, Aug. 11, 2013,
at Tuomey Regional

Medical Center.
She was a daughter
of the late George and
Missouri Ducker of
Bamberg. After graduation from Columbia
College, Mrs. Ubben
taught school for more
than 35 years. She was
active in First Baptist
Church and later Second Baptist Church,
where she served for
many years as a member of the board of
trustees, secretary of
Sunday school and
narrator of countless
Christmas and Easter
pageants. For more
than 35 years, she was
director of the Daily
Vacation Bible School.
Mrs. Ubben is survived by Donald
Ubben, Esq., of Ivy,
Va., and Manning.
Friends will gather
to remember Mrs.
Ubben at a funeral
service at 11 a.m.
Monday at Second
Baptist Church. The
burial service will follow at Monticello
United Methodist
Church at Monticello,
Fairfield County.
Memorials may be
made in her name to
Columbia College or
in the form of flowers
or in quiet acts of
grace and kindness.
You may sign the
familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guest book at
www.brunsonfuneralhome.com.
Brunson Funeral
Home, Manning, is in
charge of the arrangements, (803) 433-2273.

DOROTHY WELSH
BISHOPVILLE â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
Dorothy Leigh Stewart
Welsh, 88, widow of Alford M. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Buckâ&#x20AC;? Welsh,
died Thursday, Aug.
22, 2013, at McLeod
Regional Medical Center in Florence.
Born in Florence,
she was a daughter of
the late Miller K. Stewart and Esther Cleary
Stewart.
Mrs. Welsh was a
member of Mt. Zion
Presbyterian Church, a
graduate of Winthrop
College and a retired
secretary for Peoples
Sumter church have gone
well with 130 showing up
for the first one, Richardson said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have asked some
Alice Drive Baptist people to commit to Monday
nights for a year until the
service has some momentum and has built a
strong base,â&#x20AC;? Richardson
said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is a pretty
standard operating procedure for churches that
start new services or
plant new churches in
the town they are cur-

Oil & Gas Co.
Surviving are two
daughters, Jane Yarborough and husband,
Fred, of Washington,
D.C., and Beverly
Stroud and husband,
Gary, of Marion, N.C.;
two grandchildren,
Britt Yarborough and
Erin Morris, both of
Fort Thomas, Ky.; and
two great-grandchildren, Peyton and Reagan Leigh Morris of
Fort Thomas.
Funeral services will
be held at 11 a.m.
Monday at Mt. Zion
Presbyterian Church
with the Rev. James E.
Clark officiating.
Burial will be in the
Mt. Zion Presbyterian
Church cemetery.
The family will receive friends in the
church fellowship hall
following the service.
Memorials may be
made to the Mt. Zion
Presbyterian Church
Cemetery Fund, in care
of Don Mathis, 145
Coopers Mill Road,
Bishopville, SC 29010
or to Thornwell Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Home, P. O. Box
60, Clinton, SC 29325.
Online condolences
may be sent to www.
sumterfunerals.com.
Elmore Hill McCreight Funeral Home
& Crematory, 221
Broad St., Sumter, is in
charge of the arrangements. (803) 775-9386

MAGNOLIA R. WILLIAMS
Magnolia Robinson
Williams, wife of the
late Rev. Frank E. Williams Sr., died Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013, at
Tuomey Regional Medical Center.
Born Sept. 8, 1927,
in Rembert, she was
the daughter of the late
David Robinson and
Sara Dow Robinson.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete
and will be announced
by Williams Funeral
Home Inc.
rently serving in.â&#x20AC;?
Smith concurred.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We need people in
the room and in the
building so that when
people start to come who
are not part of our church
family they are not walking in to an empty room,â&#x20AC;?
he said in his sermon.
For more information,
contact Alice Drive Baptist at (803) 905-5200 or
info@adbc.org.
Reach Jade Anderson
at (803) 774-1250.

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Navy and Marine Corps shipmates who served on the
USS Columbus CA-74/CG-12 from 1944 through 1976
and the USS Columbus (SSN-762) past and present, to
share memories and camaraderie with old friends and
make new ones, contact Allen R. Hope, president, 3828
Hobson Road, Fort Wayne, IN 46815-4505; (260) 486-2221 8
a.m.-5 p.m.; fax (260) 492-9771; or email at hope4391@
verizon.net.
Agape Hospice is in need of volunteers. Whether your
passion is baking, knitting, reading, singing, etc., Agape
Hospice can find a place for you. Contact Thandi Blanding
at (803) 774-1075, (803) 260-3876 or tblanding@agapsenior.
com.
Hospice Care of South Carolina is in need of volunteers
in Sumter County. Do you have one extra hour a week?
Opportunities are available for patient/family
companionship, administrative support, meal preparation,
light household projects, student education and various
other tasks. Contact Whitney Rogers, regional volunteer
coordinator, at (843) 409-7991 or whitney.rogers@
hospicecare.net.
Amedisys Hospice is in need of volunteers. Volunteer
opportunities include 1) special projects of baking, sewing,
knitting, crafts, carpentry and yard work; 2) administrative/
office duties of copying, light filing and answering phones;
and 3) patient companionship — develop one-on-one
relationships with hospice patients (training provided free
of charge). Contact Rhoda Keefe, volunteer coordinator, at
(803) 469-3047 or rhonda.keefe@amedisys.com.
Hospice Care of Tri-County is in need of volunteers.
Volunteers offer support, companionship and care to the
caregiver by running errands, reading to patients, listening
and just being there for patients who need
companionship. All you need is a willing heart and some
time to give to others. No medical background is required.
Hospice Care of Tri-County will provide you with the tools
you need to become a hospice volunteer. Call Carol Tindal
at (803) 905-7720.
ROAD to RECOVERY is in need of volunteers in the Sumter
area. The program provides cancer patients with
transportation to and from treatments. Call the American
Cancer Society at (803) 750-1693.
Sumter Newcomers Club welcomes new residents (and
even some longtime residents) with coffees and luncheons
each month. Call Arlene Janis at (803) 494-9610 or Jeanne
Bessel at (803) 469-0598.
OASIS Care provides free medical and dental care for
qualifying persons living with HIV and AIDS. Call
LaVonda Johnson at (803) 775-8523.
The Rise and Shine Call Program, sponsored by LifeLine
Senior Services Inc., is a free service that provides a daily
“reassurance” call to older adults who live alone in the
community. Call (803) 774-7414 for details or to sign up.
The Westside Neighborhood Association meets at 5:30
p.m. on the third Monday of each month at the Birnie
HOPE Center, 210 S. Purdy St.
The Christian Golfers’ Association (CGA) meets at 8 a.m.
each Tuesday for Bible study. The group meets at the CGA
office in Dillon Park. Refreshments provided and golf after
Bible study. Call (803) 773-2171.
UAW Eastern Carolina International Retirees Council
meets at 10 a.m. on the second Wednesday of each month
at the VFW in Little River. All UAW retirees are welcome to
attend. Call Bob Artus at (803) 481-3622.
The Ballard-Palmer-Bates American Legion Post 202
meets at 7 p.m. on the third Wednesday of each month at
the Post, 310 Palmetto St. All veterans are welcome to
attend. Call (803) 773-4811.
The Civil Air Patrol Sumter Composite Squadron meets
from 7 to 9 p.m. each Monday at the Sumter Airport.
Contact Jared Buniel at (803) 481-7915 or JaredLotR@juno.
com. Visit the Web site at www.scwg.cap.gov/sumter/.
The Palmetto PC Club meets on the second Thursday of
each month at the Capital Senior Center in Columbia.
Details about the club can be found at http://palmettopc.
org/home/.

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Kenseth holds off Kahne to get 5th win of season
BY JENNA FRYER
The Associated Press
BRISTOL, Tenn. — Matt
Kenseth held off Kasey Kahne
for 12 nerve-racking laps to
hang on and win Saturday
night at Bristol Motor Speedway.
The win is the fifth of the
season for Kenseth, most in

the Sprint Cup Series, and
clinches a spot in
the Chase for the
championship.
Kahne passed
Juan Pablo Montoya for second
and set his sights
KENSETH
on Kenseth.
Kahne tried numerous times
over the final dozen laps to

make the pass but never
could make it stick. He went
for the bump and run on the
last lap and missed, and has
to settle for second.
Montoya was third, followed by Brian Vickers, Joey
Logano, Paul Menard, Jeff
Gordon, Marcos Ambrose,
Greg Biffle and Dale Earnhardt Jr.

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Denny Hamlin, left, leads
the field to begin Saturday’s
race in Bristol, Tenn.

Palmetto pigskin passion returns
Clemson, Carolina look to start strong
in season with high expectations
Tigers’ 5 keys to success

Gamecocks’ 5 keys to success

BY DENNIS BRUNSON
dennisb@theitem.com

BY DENNIS BRUNSON
dennisb@theitem.com

It’s amazing how one 37-yard field goal changed the
whole perception of the 2012 football season for the
Clemson Tigers.
If placekicker Chandle Catanzaro had not
nailed the kick to give Clemson a 25-24 victory over Louisiana State in the Chick-fil-A
Bowl, it would have ended the year with a
10-3 record, consecutive losses to Southeastern
Conference schools and a final ranking far removed
from the top 10.
Instead, Clemson picked up what head coach Dabo
Swinney hailed as a program-defining victory, helped
it finish in the top 10 and start this season ranked in
the top 10 as well.
See the difference?
There is no doubt this is the highest level the Tiger
football program has been at since the days of
Danny Ford in the 1980s, with the crown
jewel being the ’81 national title. There is
talk of Clemson being in the hunt this
year and if things fall the right way it is a
possibility.
Following are five factors
that will play an important
role in the ultimate success
Clemson enjoys this year.

Never has there been as much anticipation for
a college football season at the University of South
Carolina as there is for this one, which begins on
Thursday at 6 p.m. with the sixth-ranked Gamecocks
playing host to North Carolina. Of course, the program
never has posted consecutive 11-win seasons either, so that
has a little something to do with all of the excitement.
USC has some outstanding players returning, the most
obvious one being All-American defensive end Jadeveon
Clowney. However, the Gamecocks are going to have to fill
some holes along the way as well, but if the past two seasons should have taught Carolina fans anything, it is head
coach Steve Spurrier now has the program at a point
where it can do that.
Think back over those 22 wins to just
four losses in 2011 and ’12. The first year,
quarterback Stephen Garcia bailed on the
team because he was benched, leaving
sophomore Connor Shaw on his own,
learning as he went. Right after that
goes down, tailback Marcus Lattimore,
the heart and soul of the offense if not
the team, blows out his knee. Yet, South
Carolina plays solid football down the
stretch to finish 11-2.
Last season, USC is replacing
two National Football
League first-round
draft picks in cornerback Stephon

SAMMY
WATKINS

1. BEAT GEORGIA, BEAT
GEORGIA, BEAT GEORGIA
The eighth-ranked Tigers open the season on

SEE USC, PAGE B3

SEE CLEMSON, PAGE B3

JADEVEON CLOWNEY

BRUCE ELLINGTON
TAJH
BOYD

CONNOR
SHAW
RODERICK
McDOWELL

Manning High grad plays overlooked role as Coastal’s long snapper
EDITOR’S NOTE:
Barbara Boxleitner is a
former Item assistant
sports editor and college
teacher. She is a Floridabased journalist and
photographer who has
been published in 41
newspapers, magazines
and journals throughout
North America. Each
week she’ll provide updates on area athletes
participating in college
and professional sports
at all levels.

S

hane Ballard plays
a valuable and
often overlooked
position for
the Coastal
Carolina
University
football
team.
The
BALLARD
Manning
High School graduate is
the starting long snapper, handling the snaps
on punts, extra points
and field-goal attempts.

He did the same last
year, when the team
made 50 extra points,
second on the school’s
single-season list.
The position of long
snapper is unheralded,
specialists coach Curt
Baldus said, and “Nobody knows about him
unless he messes up.”
Ballard thrives in the
role because “he’s a very
hard worker,” Baldus
said. “He wants to be
the best that he can.”

He was a redshirt as a
freshman, with two snappers ahead of him. Plus,
he was undersized--185
pounds for his 6-foot-4inch frame. Ballard
gained about 20 pounds
his first year, he said, and
weighs 220 now.
He said he worked
out twice a week with
teammates on campus
during the summer, focusing on accuracy. He
SEE KEEPING UP, PAGE B5

Woodland, Kuchar tied for lead at Barclays
JERSEY CITY, N.J. —
Matt Kuchar and Gary
Woodland began their
week at The Barclays by
going to Citi Field and
getting a
tour of the
clubhouse,
where
Kuchar
noticed an
indoor batWOODLAND
ting cage
and asked if they could
try it out. He stood behind the net and threw
to Woodland, a promising baseball player in
high school.
Woodland isn’t too
bad with a golf club in
his hands, either.
Playing with Kuchar
in the final group,
Woodland ran off four
straight birdies Saturday
afternoon with another
powerful display of his
athleticism and shot a
3-under 68, giving him a
share of the lead with
Kuchar going into the
final round at Liberty
National.

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HEDWALL LEADS IN CANADA

EDMONTON, Alberta — Solheim Cup star
Caroline Hedwall shot a
6-under 64 on Saturday
in the Canadian Women’s Open to take a onestroke lead over European teammate Suzann
Pettersen and defending
champion Lydia Ko.
2 SHARE LEAD AT GLENEAGLES

GLENEAGLES, Scotland — Argentina’s Ricardo Gonzalez and
England’s Tommy Fleetwood shared the lead at
16-under after the third
round of the Johnnie
Walker Championship
at Gleneagles.
RIEGGER LEADS BOEING CLASSIC

SNOQUALMIE,
Wash. — John Riegger
shot an 8-under 64 on
Saturday to open a
three-stroke lead after
the second round of the
Champions Tour’s Boeing Classic
WILL TAKE CHARGE WINS

SARATOGA

SPRINGS, N.Y.— Will
Take Charge, with a
new rider in Luis Saez,
caught Moreno in the
final stride and won
the $1 million Travers
Stakes at Saratoga
Race Course by a nose
to give the 77-year-old
Lukas his third Travers
win and first since
1995.
TIMBERLAND
MANNING

In the second quarter, Cam Darley caught a
5-yard touchdown pass
from Donny Baker. The
Monarchs failed on the
2-point conversion,
leaving the score at 1513.
Maddox rushed for
102 yards on 20 carries
as Manning rushed for
209 yards.

18
13

ST. STEPHEN —
Manning High School
gave up 15 points in
the first quarter and
couldn’t overcome it
as it lost to Timberland
18-13 on Friday in the
football season opener
for both teams at the
Timberland field.
The Wolves jumped
out to an 8-0 lead before
John Maddox broke off
a 60-yard scoring run to
cut the lead to 8-7 Timberland came right back
with a score to go up
15-7.

Miller dominates in Cards 6-2 win over Braves
ST. LOUIS — Rookie Shelby
Miller worked seven innings of
three-hit ball, Matt Carpenter and
Carlos Beltran each homered and
the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Atlanta
Braves for the third
straight time, 6-2
Saturday.
Freddie Freeman
homered for the NL
MILLER
East-leading Braves,
who totaled five runs while dropping three in a row for the first
time since July 3-5. Julio Teheran
(10-7) allowed a season-worst
five walks and was charged with
four runs.
REDS
BREWERS

6
3

CINCINNATI — Ryan Ludwick
hit his first homer since last October, another indication his swing
is coming around, and Zack Cozart had a tiebreaking two-run
shot Saturday night, powering the
Cincinnati Reds to a 6-3 victory
over the Milwaukee Brewers.
MARLINS
ROCKIES

NEW YORK — Max Scherzer
outpitched Matt Harvey in their
All-Star rematch, striking out 11
and hitting a stunning RBI double that sent the Detroit Tigers to
a 3-0 victory over the New York
Mets on Saturday.

2
1

BALTIMORE— Coco Crisp hit
a tiebreaking home run leading off
the ninth inning and Jarrod Parker
earned his eighth straight win as
the Oakland Athletics beat the
Baltimore Orioles 2-1 Saturday.
INDIANS
TWINS

HOUSTON— Jason Castro
homered twice and drove in
three runs to lead the Houston
Astros to an 8-5 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Saturday night.
RAYS
YANKEES

4
2

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. —
David Price outpitched CC Sabathia and the Tampa Bay Rays
rallied Saturday night to beat the
New York Yankees 4-2 to hang on
to first place in the AL East.
From wire reports

AMERICAN LEAGUE

LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES ROUNDUP

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SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT,
Pa. — When California starter
Nick Mora had to leave the
game with one out to go, he
wasn’t too happy.
He was all smiles moments
later when reliever Giancarlo
Cortez recorded the final out,
completing Chula Vista’s 12-1 victory over Westport, Conn., in the
U.S. title game of the Little League
World Series on Saturday.
California will play Japan for
the World Series title on Sunday.
Japan beat Mexico 3-2 earlier Saturday on Takuma Gomi’s leadoff
home run in the sixth inning.
Mora gave California the
spark it needed with ace righthander Grant Holman not eligible to pitch until Sunday.

six runs in the sixth on a passed
ball, a wild pitch, an error, Mora’s RBI single, and a two-run
double by Michael Gaines.
JAPAN
MEXICO

Mora struck out 10 and walked
only one before reaching his
pitch limit.
California took a 6-1 lead in
the first two innings against the
New England champions, scoring three times in the first with
the help of some sloppy Connecticut play, and adding three
more on Mora’s long three-run
homer in the second.
The West champions added

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT,
Pa. — Defense. Power. Finesse.
As usual, Japan has it all.
Takuma Gomi led off the top
of the sixth inning with a tiebreaking home run, and Tokyo,
Japan, beat Tijuana, Mexico,
3-2 on Saturday to win the international title at the Little
League World Series.
Japan will play Chula Vista,
Calif., in the World Series
championship today.

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 2013

USC from Page B1
Gilmore and defensive tackle Melvin
Ingram as well as a second-rounder
in wide receiver Alshon Jeffery. Shaw
is in and out of the lineup with injuries, meaning little-used Dylan
Thompson is forced into signficant
playing time, and Lattimore again
goes down with a knee injury that
ends his USC career. While few of the
games were easy, USC was again 11-2
when all was said and done.
USC has made that move to where it
is seriously considered as one of the top
teams in the Southeastern Conference,
meaning it is one of the top teams in
the country. If Carolina is to maintain
that success and perhaps take it a step
farther, here are five things that need to
happen this season.

1. QUICK LEARNING CURVE ON D
While USC has the best defensive
player in the country â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and perhaps
the best player period â&#x20AC;&#x201D; in Clowney
and arguably the best defensive line
in the country, it will be lacking in experience in the seven positions lining
up behind the D line.
While the men who will be playing
linebacker this season are probably
more physically talented than the

group from last year, that unit had
tons of experience, none moreso than
Shaq Wilson. What they lacked in
physical ability, they made up for
with smarts and desire.
There will be a lot of inexperience
in the secondary as well. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not
necessarily a good thing when you
open with UNC and follow it up with
a trip to Georgia.
USC fans need to hope defensive
coordinator Lorenzo Ward and his assistants have coached those groups
where theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be ready for whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coming their way. Also, a strong performance by the group up front in the
early going would help tremendously.

2. DONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T LOOK PAST THE HEELS
One might think this is a ridiculous
statement since itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s your season opener, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re playing on national television and the such. However, when
youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got a nationally-ranked conference division foe a week away it can
be easy to take your eye off the ball.
A loss to the Tar Heels would turn
the trip to Athens into one of desperation; a 0-2 start to a season filled with
such high expectations would be very
deflating.
UNC has a strong quarterback in
Bryn Renner and a fast-paced offense. USC needs to be focused on

CLEMSON from Page B1
Saturday, playing host
to fifth-ranked Georgia.
The proximity of these
schools to each other
and the zealousness of
their fan bases makes
this in an exciting game,
no matter what. However, with the possibilities
that exist for both of
these teams this year,
the buildup is going to
reach stratospheric
heights.
For Clemson, a victory in this contest validates the triumph over
LSU and sets it up for a
long run and a possible
showdown against the
other SEC team on its
schedule at the end of
the season against one
South Carolina. The Tigers should be favored
in their games leading
up to the road contest
against No. 6 USC, including the Oct. 19
home showdown
against No. 11 Florida
State.
While Clemson can
still accomplish many
things if it were to lose
to Georgia, a loss to the
Bulldogs would put a
supreme damper on the
talk of a national title.
The only saving grace

would be that it is the
first game of the season,
and Clemson would
have time to work its
way back through the
rankings and get back in
the picture by winning
out.
A win though is a
table setter for Clemson.

2. AN IMPROVED DEFENSE
Clemsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s defense
was a better unit in its
first season under defensive coordinator
Brent Venables last season than it was in its
final year under his predecessor, Kevin Steele.
Still, the Tigers need to
be better defensively,
and both Swinney and
Venables know it.
The Clemson defense
had six sacks against
LSU, limited the Bayou
Bengals to 219 yards of
total offense and stifled
them in the fourth quarter so they could rally
for the victory. That
being said, LSU had a
24-13 lead entering the
fourth quarter.
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in turn, will make the
secondary much better.
The Bulldogs and
quarterback Aaron Murray will put the unit to
the test right out of the
gate.

3. DONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;T FORGET THE RUN
This might be something of a misnomer
since Clemson ran the
ball 114 more times
than it passed it last
year (588 to 474) and
rushed for 2,484 yards
and 26 touchdowns.
Still, while faults are
hard to find in the Tigersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; breakneck-speed
offense, one is that offensive coordinator
Chad Morris becomes
enamored with the
pass.
A perfect example
was the 27-17 loss to
USC last season. The Tigers came out of the

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3. O LINE NEEDS TO STEP UP
The offensive line has been a point
of contention for USC certainly since
Spurrier has been at the school. While
Spurrier and his staff have done a
good job of recruiting â&#x20AC;&#x153;SECâ&#x20AC;? type
linemen, the production hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t always been there.
With offensive line coach Shawn Elliott set for his fourth year in the program, USC fans have to hope the line
will take a big step forward this year. It
has obviously been successful at times
the last few years because Carolina has
been proficient at both running and
throwing the football. That dominant
offensive front that every team wants
has failed to materialize though.
4. BERMUDA TRIANGLE ROAD TRIP
While USC doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have back-toback road games against Louisiana
State and Florida this year as it did
last year, the SEC didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do it any favors with the scheduling. Carolina
has three straight SEC road games on
the docket for games 6-8, and two of
them take the Gamecocks half the
way across the country.
On Oct. 12, USC plays at Arkansas
followed by a trip to Tennessee on
Oct. 19. To close it out, the Game-

gate running the football and posted 14
points against Carolina
in the first quarter. After
that, the focus came on
the pass and they were
limited to just three
points the rest of the
way.
There is no Andre Ellington this year, meaning that former Sumter
High School standout
and senior Roderick McDowell is in line to get
his chance. McDowell
has been successful in
big games in a limited
role; it will be interesting
to see if he gets a chance
to be an every-down
back and if he can stand
up to the pounding.

4. A FOCUSED BOYD
Over his career, quarterback Tajh Boyd has
given no reason to think
that he hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been focused while on the field.

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played in a BCS bowl
game in the last few
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sticks in the craw. So a
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Imagine what the atmosphere will be like
should Clemson roll
into Williams-Brice Stadium undefeated or
with just one loss! And
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Overall, the special teams units
were the best theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve ever been during Spurrierâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tenure. There were big
plays on both kickoff returns and
punt returns, the coverage teams
were sold, the field goal kicking was
good and the punting was proficient.
Losing Ace Sanders on punt returns certainly hurts because he
turned into a game-changing playmaker last season. USC fans have to
hope Spurrier can come up with another solid placekicker. He has been
able to do that, occasionally coming
up with outstanding ones like Ryan
Succop and Spencer Lanning.
While Spurrier has often bypassed
a field goal to go for it on fourth
down, it makes life easier as a head
coach to be good on special teams.

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While none of these teams are supposed to be in the upper echelon of
the SEC, Carolina has historically not
played well in Arkansas or in Knoxville for that matter. And who knows
what another trip to the middle of the
country to cap off the Bermuda Triangle road trip will do to USC.
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trip doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sink its season.

However, when youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re
the Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the
Year, the preseason pick
to win that honor again
and getting hype for a
possible run at the Heisman Trophy, there is
certainly an opportunity
to be distracted.
Clemson obviously
needs Boyd to be at his
best in the big games on
the schedule; in order
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BY GENARO C. ARMAS
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GREEN BAY, Wis. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Vintage Vince Young
resurfaced for one entertaining series at Lambeau Field.
Running for first downs and extending
plays, the seven-year NFL veteran looked Friday night as if
was scrambling around again in
a Texas Longhorns uniform.
Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll settle for the greenand-gold outfits of the Green
Bay Packers. Young made a
YOUNG
strong bid for the backup quarterback job behind Aaron Rodgers with an
impressive outing in limited time during the
17-10 preseason loss to the Seattle Seahawks.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;As a quarterback, you want to lead your
guys out there. You want to convert on third
downs, you want to make first downs and
know youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to make the right throws
and call the right plays,â&#x20AC;? Young said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I really

feel like as a second- and third-team unit, I
think we took a step forward, but we still have
a lot to do to work.â&#x20AC;?
Playing in the third quarter, Young finished
6 of 7 for 41 yards and a 1-yard touchdown
pass to Jonathan Amosa to tie the game at 10.
He also ran for 39 yards on three carries, including a 21-yard scramble on a secondand-7 to the Green Bay 44.
Youngâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second series went three-andout, but a high snap that led to a 15-yard
loss was mainly to blame. All in all, Young
seized the opportunity presented by coach
Mike McCarthy, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s looking to sort out
the three-way competition for the backup
job between Young, Graham Harrell and
B.J. Coleman.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Vince Young, the dimension of running, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something that we really wanted to see. I think youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re just seeing Vince
get more and more comfortable with
whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s asked of him ... very instinctive
with big plays,â&#x20AC;? McCarthy said.

The Clarendon County
Recreation Department
will be hosting the first
Clarendon County Golf
Program Tournament on
Saturday, Sept. 21, at
Wyboo Golf Club in Manning.
The tournament is a
fundraiser for its youth
golf program.
The tournament format will be 4â&#x20AC;&#x201C;man Captainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Choice. The cost to
register is $200 per team
or $50 per person. There
will be a shotgun start at 1
p.m. Registration and
sign-ins will begin at 11
a.m. Food and drink will
be provided.
Registration forms
need to be submitted to
the recreation department by Sept. 18.
For more information
or to get a registration
form, call Wyboo Golf
Club at 803) 478-7899 or
golf program director
Donald Hardy at (803)
473-6652). You can also
call the recreation department at (803) 473-3543 or
visit it at 3057 Raccoon
Road in Manning.
KUBALA MEMORIAL TOURNEY

Registration is now
open for the Charlie Kubala Memorial Golf Tournament, which is set for
Oct. 14 at Beech Creek
Golf Club.
For more information
or to register, go to www.
sumtersheriff.org where
online registration and
payments are available or
call Lt. Lee Monahan
(803) 436-2161.
PAR 4 PETS

The 2nd Annual Par 4
Pets Golf Tournament will
be held on Saturday, Sept.
21, at Crystal Lakes Golf
Course.
The format is 4-man

Captainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Choice with an
entry fee of $160 per team
or $40 per player. Entry is
limited to the first 20
teams.
Registration is at 8 a.m.
with a shotgun start at
8:30.
There will be $5 per
mulligan available at registration with a maximum
of two per player.
The event is a fundraiser for KATâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Special
Kneads small animal
shelter.
For more information,
call Kathy Stafford at (803)
469-3906, Julie Wilkins at
(803) 968-5176, Melissa
Brunson at (803) 9830038, Gail McLeod at
(803) 840-4519 or Crystal
Lakes manager Mike
Ardis at (803) 775-1902.
BASKETBALL
OFFICIATING CLASSES

The Wateree Basketball Officials Association
will be holding South
Carolina High School
League Basketball Officials Association training
classes for prospective officials beginning on Tuesday, Sept. 3, at 6:30 p.m. at
the Sumter County Recreation Department located
at 155 Haynsworth Street.
After the initial class,
all other classes will be
held on Monday beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the
recreation department.
The classes are necessary to officiate middle
school, junior varsity and
varsity high school games.
Each training class will
cover National Federation
rules for high school basketball, South Carolina
Basketball Official Association mechanics, and
SCBOA exam preparation.
The state wide clinic
and exam will be held on
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FREE SPIRIT FALL REGISTRATION

The Free Spirit Church
League is accepting registration for its fall basketball league through Aug.
30.
The league is open to
both boys and girls ages
5-12. The registration fee
is $10 per player. The season begins on Sept. 7.
Space is still available
for churches to sponsor
teams. The entry fee for
teams is $100 and the
deadline is Aug. 24.
To register a player or
enter a team, contact
David Glover at (803) 9831309.
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SUMTER TOUCHDOWN CLUB

The Sumter Touchdown Club is organizing
for the upcoming high
school football season.
The club will meet
every Friday at the Quality Inn on Broad Street beginning at 7:15 a.m. There
will be a catered breakfast, players of the week,
guest speakers, a devotional and a coaches corner. The meeting will conclude by 8:30 a.m.
The first meeting will
be held on Aug. 30 and
will feature local high
school coaches partici-

pating in a roundtable
discussion about prospects for the upcoming
season.
Lide Huggins, a former
University of South Carolina football player and
the former Director of
Football Operations for
the Denver Broncos, will
speak on Sept. 6 and former USC quarterback
and current Carolina
play-by-play announcer
Todd Ellis will speak on
Sept. 13.
The rest of the lineup
includes Carolina running backs coach Everette
Sands on Sept. 20, former
Clemson and National
Football League linebacker and current Tigers
sideline reporter Patrick
Sapp on Sept. 27, longtime college football referee and the director of
officials for the Southeastern Conference Penn Wagers on Oct. 4, Presbyterian College head coach
Harold Nichols on Oct.
11, The Citadel head
coach Kevin Higgins on
Oct. 18, a speaker to be
confirmed for Oct. 25,
Wofford College head
coach Mike Ayers on Nov.
1, Clemson offensive line
coach Robbie Caldwell on
Nov. 8 and radio talk
show host and recruiting
guru Phil Kornblut on
Nov. 15.
Membership in the TD
Club is $100. Non-mem-

POP WARNER REGISTRATION

The Sumter Pop Warner Football & Cheer Association and Youth Athletics of Sumter is still taking registration for the upcoming season.
The football and cheer

teams are open to children ages 5-13 years old.
The fee is $80 for both
football and cheerleading.
The fee for football will
cover insurance, ID
Badge, use of shoulder
pads, use of helmet, use
of practice clothes and a
mouthpiece. Parents will
be responsible for buying
game jersey, game pants,
cleats, cup, and socks.
The fee for cheer will
cover insurance, ID
badge, use of uniform,
use of pom-poms, socks
and undergarment. Parents will be responsible
for buying shoes.
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Ten things to know about the U.S. Open
BY HOWARD FENDRICH
The Associated Press

7. WHO IS NOT HERE

NEW YORK — A look
at 10 of the top topics at
the U.S. Open, the hardcourt Grand Slam tennis
tournament that begins
Monday and ends Sept. 9:
1. MURRAY’S FIRST DEFENSE

For the first time, Andy
Murray will be the defending champion at a
Grand Slam tournament
— and he suspects he’ll
be more nervous than
usual in the early rounds.
Will be intriguing to see if
that’s true. His championship at the 2012 U.S. Open
made him the first man
from Britain to win a
major title since Fred
Perry in 1936. And last
month, Murray ended
Britain’s 77-year wait for a
male champion at Wimbledon.
2. RAFA RETURNS

Rafael Nadal has gone
through all manner of ups
and downs over the past
two seasons, including a
seven-month absence because of knee trouble —
he missed two Grand
Slam tournaments, including last year’s U.S.
Open — plus two more
French Open titles and
two quick exits at Wimbledon. He’s looked terrific lately, improving to
15-0 on hard courts in
2013 by winning the
Montreal and Cincinnati
tournaments this month.
He’s back up to No. 2 in
the rankings, behind only
Novak Djokovic, who has
reached at least the semifinals in each of his past
six visits to Flushing
Meadows.
3. FEDERER AT NO. 7

Roger Federer’s 17

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Andy Murray, Britain’s first male champion at Wimbledon in 77 years, will attempt to defend
a Grand Slam title for the first time in his career, at the U.S. Open beginning on Monday.

Grand Slam titles include
five at the U.S. Open. He
was ranked No. 1 for
more weeks than any
man in history. He was
seeded No. 1 at 18 consecutive Grand Slam
tournaments from 200408. And now? Well, he
turned 32 this month, has
fiddled around with a bigger racket, is coming off
his earliest loss at a Grand
Slam tournament in a decade, and is seeded No. 7
at the U.S. Open. If he
makes it to the quarterfinals, he’d face his nemesis, Nadal.
4. ANYONE OUTSIDE THE BIG 4?

The so-called Big 4 of
Federer, Nadal, Djokovic
and Murray have combined to win 33 of the
past 34 Grand Slam titles,
a stretch that began in
2005. Is there any chance
anyone else breaks
through at this tournament? Any discussion of
other contenders must
begin with the guy who
kept it from being 34 of 34
— Juan Martin del Potro,
the 6-foot-6 Argentine
with the booming forehand who surprised Fe-

computer rankings, zero
U.S. men appeared in the
top 20. John Isner, who is
listed at 6-foot-10 and can
serve as well as anyone,
moved back in; he’s seeded 13th and could play
Nadal in the fourth
round.
derer in five sets in the
2009 U.S. Open final. Another big hitter to keep an
eye on? No. 5 Tomas
Berdych, the 2010 Wimbledon runner-up, although consistency is not
his strong suit.
5. THE AMERICAN MEN

Andy Roddick’s name
might very well be mentioned as much over the
coming weeks as Perry’s
has been uttered at Wimbledon. This U.S. Open is
the 40th Grand Slam
tournament since an
American man won a
major title, Roddick’s at
Flushing Meadows in
2003. Used to be unthinkable that the United States
would go a full decade
without claiming one of
tennis’ most prestigious
titles. Earlier this month,
for the only time in the
40-year history of the ATP

6. WILLIAMS TRIES TO MAKE IT TWO

For all Serena Williams has accomplished,
one tiny thing missing
from her resume is a successful title defense at the
U.S. Open, the site of a
couple of her infamous
meltdowns. She won her
fourth trophy at Flushing
Meadows last year, edging
No. 2 Victoria Azarenka in
a gripping three-set final.
When Williams is on,
she’s certainly the woman
to beat. But Azarenka believes she has a chance
against Williams, a rare
quality on the women’s
tour; Azarenka won their
final at Cincinnati this
month. Still, Williams is
ranked No. 1, which
means she’s seeded No. 1
in New York — the last
time that happened was
2002, and she won the
tournament.

Maria Sharapova surprisingly withdrew the
day before the draw, leaving the field without a
four-time Grand Slam
champion and TV broadcasters without one of the
sport’s top stars. Even
more surprising: Wimbledon champion Marion
Bartoli isn’t entered in the
U.S. Open, either, and it’s
because she suddenly announced her retirement
this month at age 28. Also
absent is Mardy Fish, who
used to be ranked in the
top 10 and was a quarterfinalist in New York two
years ago, but hasn’t
played in a Grand Slam
tournament in 2013 as he
tries to come back from a
heart issue.
8. YOUNG AMERICAN WOMEN

Sloane Stephens is
seeded 15th, and the
sport’s biggest stages
bring out her best tennis:
She upset Williams en
route to the Australian
Open semifinals, made it
to the Wimbledon quarterfinals before losing to
eventual champion Bartoli, and got to the second
week at the French Open,
too. The 20-year-old Stephens is hardly the only
up-and-coming young
American who could
draw attention. Jamie
Hampton, who is seeded
23rd, also made the second week at Roland Garros. Madison Keys is
worth watching, too. In
all, there are 10 U.S.
women in the WTA’s top
100.
9. MONDAY, MONDAY

For the first time in
the Open era, which
began in 1968, the
year’s last Grand Slam

tournament is scheduled to end on a Monday — a result of the
push by top players to
provide a day of rest between the men’s semifinals and final, instead of
the U.S. Open’s longstanding Saturday-Sunday finish. Each of the
past five years, the U.S.
Open wrapped up on
Monday, but only because of rain delays.
Weather-related problems should become a
thing of the past in the
not-too-distant future:
The U.S. Tennis Association announced plans
to build two retractable
roofs. The aim is to have
a cover for Arthur Ashe
Stadium by the 2016
tournament, although it
might not be ready until
2017.
10. MONEY, MONEY, EVERYWHERE

Another result of
lobbying by top players
is an increase in prize
money at Grand Slam
tournaments — the U.S.
Open is raising its total
payout about 35 percent
in 2013, to more than
$34 million. That includes $2.6 million each
to the men’s and women’s singles champions.
A player who loses in
the first round of singles
will get $32,000. If either
Nadal or Williams wins
the title, the trophy
would come with a
check for $3.6 million,
because each earned a
possible $1 million
bonus by finishing atop
the standings from the
U.S. Open Series, which
takes into account results on the North
American hard-court
circuit.

U.S. OPEN MEN’S CAPSULES
NEW YORK (AP) — Men to watch at the U.S. Open,
which begins Monday:
NOVAK DJOKOVIC
Seeded: 1
Age: 26
Country: Serbia
2013 Match Record: 44-8
2013 Singles Titles: 3
Career Singles Titles: 37
Major Titles: 6 — U.S. Open (‘11), Wimbledon (‘11),
Australian Open (‘08, ‘11, ‘12, ‘13)
Last 5 U.S. Opens: ‘12-Lost in Final, ‘11-Won Championship, ‘10-F, ‘09-SF, ‘08-SF
Topspin: No worse than a semifinalist six years in a
row at Flushing Meadows, including four finals appearances in that span — but only one title. ... Played
Andy Murray in three of the past four Grand Slam finals, going 1-2; one of those losses came at the U.S.
Open a year ago. ... His 28 career hard-court titles are
second among active men to Roger Federer’s 52.
RAFAEL NADAL
Seeded: 2
Age: 27
Country: Spain
2013 Match Record: 53-3
2013 Singles Titles: 9
Career Singles Titles: 59
Major Titles: 12 — U.S. Open (‘10), Wimbledon (‘08,
‘10), Australian Open (‘09), French Open (‘05, ‘06, ‘07,
‘08, ‘10, ‘11, ‘12, ‘13)
Last 5 U.S. Opens: ‘12-Did Not Play, ‘11-F, ‘10-W,

‘09-SF, ‘08-SF
Topspin: Returns after missing last year’s U.S. Open
during a seven-month absence from the tour because of
knee issues. ... Not only does he lead the tour this season
with nine titles — no one else has more than four. ... 15-0
on hard courts in 2013, giving him three titles on the
surface in a single season for the first time. ... 14-1 against
opponents ranked in the top 10 this year. ... Could meet
Federer in the quarterfinals.
ANDY MURRAY
Seeded: 3
Age: 26
Country: Britain
2013 Match Record: 37-7
2013 Singles Titles: 4
Career Singles Titles: 28
Major Titles: 2 — U.S. Open (‘12), Wimbledon (‘13)
Last 5 U.S. Opens: ‘12-W, ‘11-SF, ‘10-3rd, ‘09-4th,
‘08-F
Topspin: Reached at least the semifinals at nine of the
last 10 Grand Slam tournaments he’s entered, and the
final at the last four in a row. ... Victory at Wimbledon in
July made him the first British man to earn that title
since Fred Perry in 1936, sparking talk of knighthood.
... Career-redefining stretch over past 13 months includes two Wimbledon finals, Olympic gold medal and
U.S. Open title. Now gets first chance to try to defend
Grand Slam title. ... Says his movement is a key to
success these two weeks.
TOMAS BERDYCH
Seeded: 5

Age: 27
Country: Czech Republic
2013 Match Record: 40-16
2013 Singles Titles: 0
Career Singles Titles: 8
Major Titles: 0 — Best: F, at Wimbledon (‘10)
Last 5 U.S. Opens: ‘12-SF, ‘11-3rd, ‘10-1st, ‘09-3rd,
‘08-1st
Topspin: Tied with Djokovic and Juan Martin del
Potro for most hard-court match wins this season,
with 25, but is also the only one of the trio without a
title on the surface in 2013. ... Runs as hot-and-cold
as anyone on tour, capable of upsetting Federer on
the way to the semifinals (which he did at the U.S.
Open last year) or of losing in the first round (which
he did at the U.S. Open twice in the past five years).
... Ranked in top five for first time in career.
JUAN MARTIN DEL POTRO
Seeded: 6
Age: 24
Country: Argentina
2013 Match Record: 34-11
2013 Singles Titles: 2
Career Singles Titles: 15
Major Titles: 1 — U.S. Open (‘09)
Last 5 U.S. Opens: ‘12-QF, ‘11-3rd, ‘10-DNP, ‘09-W,
‘08-QF
Topspin: After health issues sidetracked him — none
more serious than wrist surgery in 2010 — del Potro
appears to be back at the top of his game, pushing
Djokovic to five sets in the longest Wimbledon semifinal

in history last month, and faring well on the hard-court
circuit. ... Left knee that he hyperextended at Wimbledon
no longer a problem. ... His 2009 title at the U.S. Open is
the only one of the past 34 Grand Slam trophies not won
by Federer, Nadal, Djokovic or Murray.
ROGER FEDERER
Seeded: 7
Age: 32
Country: Switzerland
2013 Match Record: 32-11
2013 Singles Titles: 1
Career Singles Titles: 77
Major Titles: 17 — U.S. Open (‘04, ‘05, ‘06, ‘07, ‘08),
Wimbledon (‘03, ‘04, ‘05, ‘06, ‘07, ‘09, ‘12), Australian
Open (‘04, ‘06, ‘07, ‘10), French Open (‘09)
Last 5 U.S. Opens: ‘12-QF, ‘11-SF, ‘10-SF, ‘09-F, ‘08-W
Topspin: Since winning the championship at Flushing
Meadows for five consecutive years, has been regressing, with two semifinal exits and then last year’s quarterfinal loss. ... Record streak of reaching at least the
quarterfinals at 36 consecutive major tournaments
ended in June at Wimbledon with a second-round exit.
... Lowest seeding at the U.S. Open since 2002. ... This
is his 56th consecutive Grand Slam appearance, equaling the men’s record held by Wayne Ferreira.
KEI NISHIKORI
Seeded: 11
Age: 23
Country: Japan
2013 Match Record: 27-14
2013 Singles Titles: 1

U.S. OPEN WOMEN’S CAPSULES
NEW YORK (AP) — Women to watch at the U.S. Open,
which begins Monday:
SERENA WILLIAMS
Seeded: 1
Age: 31
Country: United States
2013 Match Record: 60-4
2013 Singles Titles: 8
Career Singles Titles: 54
Major Titles: 16 — U.S. Open (‘99, ‘02, ‘08, ‘12), Wimbledon (‘02, ‘03, ‘09, ‘10, ‘12), Australian Open (‘03, ‘05,
‘07, ‘09, ‘10), French Open (‘02, ‘13)
Last 5 U.S. Opens: ‘12-Won Championship, ‘11-Lost in
Final, ‘10-Did Not Play, ‘09-SF, ‘08-W
Topspin: Trying to win two U.S. Opens in a row for first time.
... As winner of the U.S. Open Series — based on hardcourt results during the North American summer hard-court
circuit — eligible for $1 million bonus for a title at Flushing
Meadows, giving her chance to take home $3.6 million. ...
Her 34-match winning streak that ended with fourth-round
loss at Wimbledon was the longest run in women’s tennis
since older sister Venus won 35 in a row in 2000. ... Only
Steffi Graf (22), Chris Evert (18) and Martina Navratilova
(18) have won more Grand Slam titles in the Open era,
which began in 1968.
VICTORIA AZARENKA
Seeded: 2
Age: 24
Country: Belarus
2013 Match Record: 36-4
2013 Singles Titles: 3
Career Singles Titles: 17
Major Titles: 2 — Australian Open (‘12, ‘13)
Last 5 U.S. Opens: ‘12-F, ‘11-3rd, ‘10-2nd, ‘09-3rd, ‘083rd
Topspin: Reached the final at the past three hard-court
Grand Slam tournaments, winning two titles at the Australian Open and losing in three sets to Williams at last year’s
U.S. Open. ... Career record against Williams is only 3-12,
but two of the victories came this season, making Azarenka
only woman to beat the American twice in 2013. ... 16 career hard-court titles put her fourth among active women,
behind only the Williams sisters and Maria Sharapova, who
withdrew from the U.S. Open with a right shoulder injury.
AGNIESZKA RADWANSKA
Seeded: 3
Age: 24
Country: Poland
2013 Match Record: 28-9

2013 Singles Titles: 2
Career Singles Titles: 12
Major Titles: 0 — Best: F, at Wimbledon (‘12)
Last 5 U.S. Opens: ‘12-4, ‘11-2nd, ‘10-2nd, ‘09-2nd,
‘08-4th
Topspin: Master of using spin, changing speeds and angles, to fluster opponents. ... Finally had Grand Slam
breakthrough at Wimbledon a year ago, reaching her first
major final. ... Her 27-2 record in first-round matches at
Grand Slam tournaments — 7-0 at the U.S. Open — gives
her the second-best winning percentage among active
women, trailing Williams, who is 51-1. ... Moved up to No. 3
seeding when Sharapova withdrew.
LI NA
Seeded: 5
Age: 31
Country: China
2013 Match Record: 32-11
2013 Singles Titles: 1
Career Singles Titles: 7
Major Titles: 1 — French Open (‘11)
Last 5 U.S. Opens: ‘12-3rd, ‘11-1st, ‘10-1st, ‘09-QF,
‘08-4th
Topspin: 22-5 on hard courts this season, including a
run to her second career Australian Open final plus two
recent semifinal appearances at Toronto and Cincinnati.
... Straight-set victories over Sharapova and Radwanska
put her in the title match at Melbourne in January, but lost
to Azarenka in three sets.
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI
Seeded: 6
Age: 23
Country: Denmark
2013 Match Record: 27-18 (Playing at New Haven)
2013 Singles Titles: 0
Career Singles Titles: 20
Major Titles: 0 — Best: F, U.S. Open (‘09)
Last 5 U.S. Opens: ‘12-1st, ‘11-SF, ‘10-SF, ‘09-F, ‘08-4th
Topspin: Had won 20 first-round matches in a row at
Grand Slam tournaments into back-to-back losses at
Wimbledon and the U.S. Open in 2012. ... Otherwise,
though, has had plenty of success at Flushing Meadows,
reaching at least the semifinals the three previous years,
including her only major final in 2009.
PETRA KVITOVA
Seeded: 7
Age: 23
Country: Czech Republic
2013 Match Record: 39-18 (Playing at New Haven)

2013 Singles Titles: 1
Career Singles Titles: 10
Major Titles: 1 — Wimbledon (‘11)
Last 5 U.S. Opens: ‘12-4th, ‘11-1st, ‘10-4th, ‘09-3rd,
‘08-1st
Topspin: Reached final at hard-court tuneup tournament in New Haven. ... Ranks third on tour in aces this
season, trailing Serena Williams and Wimbledon runner-up Sabine Lisicki. ... Back in February, won a hardcourt title and also pushed Williams to 7-5 in the third
set of a quarterfinal at another tournament on the surface.
MARIA KIRILENKO
Seeded: 14
Age: 26
Country: Russia
2013 Match Record: 31-14
2013 Singles Titles: 1
Career Singles Titles: 6
Major Titles: 0 — Best: QF, Wimbledon (‘12), French
Open (‘13)
Last 5 U.S. Opens: ‘12-3rd, ‘11-4th, ‘10-3rd, ‘09-3rd,
‘08-1st
Topspin: Reached the quarterfinals at two of the last
five major tournaments, the best Grand Slam results of
her career. ... Made her debut in the WTA’s top 10 on
June 10, after French Open. ... Engaged to NHL star
Alex Ovechkin of the Washington Capitals. ... Won the
longest tiebreaker in U.S. Open history, 17-15, in the
fourth round in 2011, but lost the match in three sets to
eventual champion Samantha Stosur.
SLOANE STEPHENS
Seeded: 15
Age: 20
Country: United States
2013 Match Record: 29-18
2013 Singles Titles: 0
Career Singles Titles: 0
Major Titles: 0 — Best: SF, at Australian Open (‘13)
Last 5 U.S. Opens: ‘12-3rd, ‘11-3rd, ‘10-DNP, ‘09-DNP,
‘08-DNP
Topspin: Reached the fourth round or better at four of the
past six Grand Slam tournaments, performing much more
consistently on the biggest stages than at smaller tournaments. ... Will be worth watching to see how she handles the
attention that comes with being an up-and-coming American
at Flushing Meadows. ... Surprised Williams in an all-U.S.
quarterfinal at the Australian Open in January, before losing
to Azarenka in the semifinals.

Career Singles Titles: 3
Major Titles: 0 — Best: QF, at Australian Open (‘12)
Last 5 U.S. Opens: ‘12-3rd, ‘11-1st, ‘10-3rd, ‘09-DNP,
‘08-4th
Topspin: Hasn’t been able to string together more than
two match wins in a row since losing to Nadal in the fourth
round of the French Open. Was first Japanese man to
make it that far in Paris since 1938. ... Game shows up
best on hard courts, and his top Grand Slam results have
come at the Australian Open and U.S. Open.
JOHN ISNER
Seeded: 13
Age: 27
Country: United States
2013 Match Record: 32-19
2013 Singles Titles: 2
Career Singles Titles: 7
Major Titles: 0 — Best: QF, at U.S. Open (‘11)
Last 5 U.S. Opens: ‘12-3rd, ‘11-QF, ‘10-3rd, ‘09-4th,
‘08-1st
Topspin: Missed Australian Open with a knee injury,
lost in third round at French Open, then had Wimbledon
cut short by a quadriceps injury. Can salvage rough
Grand Slam season at the major tournament where he’s
most comfortable and his big serve is most dangerous.
... Now officially listed by the ATP World Tour as 6-foot10, an inch taller than he was listed at before this year.
... Beat four players ranked in the top 11, including
Djokovic and del Potro, en route to final at Cincinnati;
also was runner-up at Washington and won title at Atlanta on hard courts.

KEEPING UP from Page B1
practiced 15 to 20 snaps for each of the punts and
kicks.
He has to deliver the snap in a certain time, for
example, under 1.25 seconds for the field goal, he
said. “The field goal’s easier,” said Ballard, the special teams most valuable player in a win against
Charleston Southern University last year. “The
punt’s not that bad.”
He doesn’t feel pressure from defenders right on
the line of scrimmage. “I have somewhat of a protection window,” he said. “I have big enough guys
around me.”
Baldus said Ballard has improved the most in the
speed and consistency of his snaps. “The punt snap
is deeper,” the coach said. “That is the more difficult
one.”
The kicking and punting positions have not been
decided, Baldus said, so Ballard has been working
with returning upperclassmen and three freshmen.
He’s been trying to establish a rhythm with the newcomers. “It’s mainly the timing part,” Ballard said.
Send updates about area athletes to Barbara Boxleitner at BKLE3@aol.com.

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An all-ears, no-antler day

afield & afloat

ou know, I really like to
deer hunt, but it’s getting down right hard to
get it done.
I sat in the rain on opening
day and didn’t see a single
thing, but at least the dirt was
dry inside the ground blind.
My hunting partner and I
went back to the club between
church services last Sunday to
check some trail cameras and
to put a stand in
a tree. Upon arrival, we found
the road into
the first stand
impassable due
to flooding. I
had seen on TV
that the area
Earle
that surrounds
WOODWARD
the club had received almost
four inches of rain on Saturday,
but I was not prepared for the
massive amounts of standing
water that I saw. We were able
to work our way around the
water, change out a defective
trail camera for one that works
and exit to the next location.
The mosquitoes were still
almost unbearable and — I’m
going to go out on a limb here
— I assume that with all the
standing water they are going
to be bad for awhile.
We made it to the other locations with no problems,
other than the bugs, and upon
review of the camera’s SD cards
found that there are several
does and a couple of cow horn
bucks working the stand sites.
The cow horns are safe with
me, well, at least until December. If nothing better comes
along by then, I’ll take one for
the meat.
So, I planned a hunt for
Monday afternoon, but just like
every other day, it rained.
Tuesday afternoon wasn’t
much better. It looked pretty
good at first, but a check of the

radar when I got home from
work showed a storm beginning to brew just south of the
property and moving north. I
checked the radar about every
15 minutes and the storm took
shape and moved to a position
right over the property and
then spread all the way to my
house. Tuesday was out.
O.K. Wednesday was pretty
much my last gasp for this
week’s article. I checked the
radar at work and it was all
clear, and when I got home it
was still clear, so I proceeded
with the pre-hunt ritual.
After the shower, I loaded
things into the truck, took one
last look at the radar and headed out.
I generally park my truck on
the top of a sandy spot on the
edge of a field, so the flying
bloodsuckers aren’t that bad
there. I changed into my hunting clothes and headed for the
stand, wading through the
standing waters and clouds of
mosquitoes as I went.
The hovering pests lessened
as I climbed above them and
took my place in the stand, and
with the help of the ThermaCELL, they were all but nonexistent in a bout 10 minutes.
It was hot, no breeze and so
humid you could ring water
out of the air. Uncomfortable
would be a good word to use.
As the shadows grew in
length, I noticed that my view
of the trees on the far side of
the field was now obstructed
by the volunteer pines that had
sprung up in the field so many
years ago. I used the distant
trees as sort of a sundial to tell
about how far away sundown
was, but with them now obstructed, oh well. It was a great
growing season on the property.
The frogs in the standing
water cranked up as the sun
set, something that I really had

not heard from this stand before. I suppose they are trying
to get in that last crop of tadpoles before the winter.
I watched and waited, sitting
over the clover patch. I could
clearly see from my perch that
the clover had been eaten
down to the ground in the center of the patch, which certainly gave me some encouragement.
Around 8 p.m. I picked up
movement in one of my shooting lanes and found a rather
large rabbit munching clover
just as fast as he could go. Now
rabbits are not in season at the
moment, but after Thanksgiving, he may want to find another clover patch in which to
dine because this short, fat, little redneck does love a rabbit
on a plate.
Shortly after the rabbit filled
his gullet, I heard footsteps in
the waters behind the stand.
They came from over my right
shoulder, crossed behind me
and went out of hearing over
my left shoulder. I never got a
look at them, but there was
more than one and they were
headed in the direction of a
large soybean field to the
north, just off of our lease. I
reckon rain-washed, tender
soybean shoots, plucked from
the tops of the plants beat out
the hard, dirty corn laying in
the field on the east side of the
lease. I had bet on the corn
field.
I climbed down when it got
too dark to be able to distinguish antlers from ears. I
walked by the trail camera,
grabbed the SD card and went
home.
No wonder the clover is a little lacking in front of the stand;
there are five big does and a
cow horn working it over on a
regular basis. Does will be in
season come Sept. 15. Maybe it
will quit raining by then.

FISHING REPORT
Santee Cooper System
Largemouth bass: Slow. Bass fishing
is very tough on Santee Cooper, and
typically August and September are
the slowest months of the year. Very
little bass fishing is going on in the
lakes and most clubs are fishing the
Cooper River right now.
Lake Murray
Striped bass: Good. Lots of schooling
activity reported from mid-lake on
down, but the fish aren’t as deep as
they have been recently. Nearer to the
surface down to about 60 feet. Most
fish are being caught on downlined
live herring but cut bait will also catch
fish. Largemouth Bass: Fair to good.
Find schools of stripers and you find
largemouth mixed in. Throwing buzz
baits and topwater lures to start. Crappie: Good. Check the deeper brush
piles at 20-25 feet over 35 feet of
water. Fish aren’t taking jigs and they
are scattered around the lake.
Lake Wateree
Crappie: Good. Fish are scattered
around the lake with all of the intake
of fresh water. Fish aren’t sticking
tight to brush, probably because of
lower water temperatures. Tightlining
or longlining is your best bet.
Lake Greenwood
Largemouth Bass: Slow. The bite is
tough, but some results early with
popper around seawalls and some
action with worms. It’s hard to catch
anything of size.
Lake Monticello
Catfish: Good. Captain Chris Simpson reports that he is catching fish in
the range of 5-40 feet right now, but in
the next couple of weeks deep
humps with current flowing over them
should be ideal spots to locate big,
aggressive fish. There have been fish
deep for some time, but they have not
been feeding as well as the shallower
fish. For now the backs of coves and
humps and points have been most
productive, and drifting or anchoring
have both been working. Big cut gizzard shad and white perch are working for big fish, and if you want to put
any size fish in the boat small cut
herring is tough to beat.
Lake Russell
Striped bass: Fair. As is typical in late
August and September; striped bass
can be caught on both ends of the

lake. Be sure to use circle hooks to
make releasing fish easier as many
of these striped bass are small. Fish
can be caught free lining live herring
and gizzard shad over 15-30 feet of
water in the cooler water.
Lake Thurmond
Crappie: Good. Best bet is 20 feet over
25-30 feet of water along the river
channel. Target crappie by anchoring
and dropping minnows vertically. Striper: Fair. Fish are on the lower end of
the lake at 50-60 feet off points with
hybrids about 10 feet above them.
Fishing live herring on down lines has
been the predominant technique.
Lake Wylie
Largemouth Bass: Slow. Fluctuating
water levels have made it tough to
determine any pattern although
some results reported in the shallows. Try prop baits, swimbaits and
weightless Senkos.
Lake Jocassee
Trout: Good. For quality fish the catch
rate has overall been pretty good.
Trolling in the big water 60-100 feet
down with spoons and live shiners
has been most effective. The intakes
are still producing some fish off and
on, but night fishing has slowed. Night
fishermen should try suspending
nightcrawlers and shiners 25 to 40
feet down near the intakes.
Lake Keowee
Largemouth and Spotted Bass: Slow.
The catch hasn’t been much to speak
of lately, but some results on topwater
early. Bream: Fair. In the backs of
creeks, coves and around waterfalls
bream are being caught in good
numbers. Fish crickets, worms or
small artificials like inline spinners.
Lake Hartwell
Striped and Hybrid Bass: Good. Fish
are very deep at 50 to 100 feet and
some days may be on the bottom. Try
down lined live herring. Catfish: Good.
Flatheads especially are biting at 5 to
25 feet at night. Try cut herring. Crappie: Improving. During the day the best
bet is fishing around deeper parts of
the bridges in 20-25 feet of water, or
around brush at the same depth.
Largemouth: Slow. It’s a tough bite on
the lake and hard to catch anything
good. Some results on topwater with
Texas rigs, but no real pattern on the
lake.

ore than 20 people gathered in a
semicircle opened their mouths
wide and stuck their tongues out
at Scott Freiberg Friday morning. They were
not commenting on their breakfasts — Freiberg is food service director at Morningside
of Sumter — rather, they were imitating him
as he taught them the lion pose, one of the
warm-up poses in yoga.
Also a certified yoga instructor, Freiberg is
teaching the class to Morningside residents,
members of the Shepherd’s Center and “anyone else who’s interested,” he said. There is
no charge.
Most of his students do the poses from a
seated position or standing while holding
onto their chairs; however, Freiberg said
some bring mats for more advanced poses
on the floor.
“I encourage them to stand if they feel
comfortable doing that,” he said. “Anybody
can do the poses any way they want. They’re
very adaptable.”
Each one-hour session begins with Freiberg reading an “inspirational quote,” he
said. “Last Friday, it was one that someone
brought in. I printed out a copy for each
class member and also distributed them to

the (Morningside) residents. Some of them
framed it.”
Following the reading, Freiberg and his
students made the gesture called Namaste.
Each one placed his or her hands together in
front of the heart, closed her eyes and
bowed to the other participants.
“The word Namaste literally means ‘I bow
to you,’” Freiberg explained to his students.
“It’s a sign of respect” and an acknowledgement of the soul or “divine spark” in each
person.
He said that many people think of yoga as
a religion.
“It’s not a religion,” he said. “It’s about
moving and breathing.”
In fact, Freiberg starts with a short breathing exercise, before moving on to some yoga
poses. Each person took deep breaths in
through the nose and out through the mouth
at his direction. Then he took them through
some warm-up exercises.
The lion pose, he said, “is a good stress
reliever, and it’s a lot of fun. It gets everyone
laughing and smiling, in a good mood. We’re
in there laughing like a bunch of kids.”
Additionally, he said, “It’s supposed to be
good for colds.”
The eagle is a balancing pose intended to
“wake up” the skeletal system, especially the
14 largest joints.

What benefits do his students
gain from practicing yoga?
“It helps them with balance
and stress,” Freiberg said. “It
helps them sleep better and increases muscle tone.”
The benefits also “spill out
into the rest of the building,” he
said, demonstrating that “Just because you’re older doesn’t mean
you’re weak.”
The public is invited to participate in Yoga for Seniors from 10:30 to
11:30 a.m. each Friday at Morningside
of Sumter, 2500 LinDo Court off Wilson
Hall Road. For more
information, call Scott
Freiberg at (803) 4694490.

Scott Freiberg teaches a
group of seniors the eagle
position in his yoga class at
Morningside of Sumter. The
free class is open to residents and
members of the public.

Sumter Y begins women’s program; Sumter merchants oppose sales tax

yesteryear in Sumter

50 Years Ago — 1963
Oct. 18-24
City Council Busy in Tuesday Meeting — Annexations,
auctioneers and streets received the most attention in a
busy meeting of City Council
yesterday. Two petitions calling
for annexation of property were
approved by council, which
then adopted a resolufrom the
tion ordering
archives
of
an election.
The Item
Property belonging to
W.B. Boyle
Co. behind
and adjacent
to the recently anItem Archivist
nexed PalSAMMY WAY
metto Plaza
off Guignard
Drive and 62 acres in the northeast section of the city bounded
on the west by the Oswego
Road and belonging to Wen-Le
Corp. will be voted on in a citywide election scheduled in the
near future.
Miss Elmore Crowned
Farm Bureau Queen — More
than 200 Clarendon Farm Bureau members and friends assembled at the Manning High
School auditorium Tuesday
evening to witness the crown-

ing of the Farm Bureau Queen
for 1964.
Miss Nina Elmore, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Loraine Elmore of Route 1, Alcolu, was
chosen queen and was
crowned by Mrs. C.F. Price of
Marion, South Carolina Farm
Bureau woman’s chairman.
She is a student at Manning
High School.
Pat Berlinger is Selected
Miss Hillcrest — The Hillcrest
Student Body has selected Pat
Berlinger as their “Miss Hillcrest.” Pat is a daughter of M.
Sgt. (Ret.) and Mrs. R.E. Berlinger. Before his retirement Sgt.
Berlinger and his family had
been at Shaw for four and a half
years. He is presently the
greens keeper at the Shaw Golf
Course.
Fair Awards Welsh Pony —
“City School Day” Friday at the
Sumter County Fair was climaxed with the awarding of a
Welsh pony to 8–year-old
Henry McLeod of Route 2,
Pinewood. The drawing, free
admission to the grounds for
children until 6 p. m., the attractions of the Amusements of
America mid-way and a colorful fireworks exhibition, contributed toward making Friday
the biggest single day of the
week in terms of admissions.

They Bring the News — The
Item salutes several of its carriers during National Newspaper
Day. Those recognized in the
published photo were Keith
Boone, Lenny Cummings, Mike
Blanding, Terrell Stamps, Perry
DuRant, Kenneth French,
Danny Farmer, Steve Bramlette,
David Bryant, Steve Stamps,
Billy Waters, Dwight Campbell,
Ronnie Boyce, Randy Gleaton,
Tom Lewis and John Klonis.
Jaycee Drive One-Day Blitz
— Swift Strike II, not a military
exercise but a Sumter Jaycee
membership drive, will kickoff
tomorrow morning at the Holiday Inn. It will be an extensive,
one-day campaign, says project
Chairman Larry Rogers, with
two teams competing for the
most new members. The losers
will buy steaks for the winners.
Jaycee President Jimmy Britton
described Jaycee membership
as “a rewarding experience” for
young men.
‘Stop Polio’ Clinics Open
Doors Sunday — Dr. C. Benton
Burns, chairman of the campaign, urged all residents and
their children to take advantage
of this opportunity to wipe out
the dreaded disease.
“Many people may have already had the Salk vaccine,”
said Burns, “and may have

some protection. However, they
can still be a carrier of the polio
virus and infect others. There
are no exceptions — everyone
must receive the vaccine”… The
Sabin polio vaccine is taken by
mouth on a sugar cube. There
are no needles or bad taste. Because of the expense of the program, sponsors are asking that
all who receive the vaccine
make a contribution of 25 cents
or more….
Sumter Y Begins Women’s
Program — Sumter YMCA has
launched a new physical education program for women this
year. Classes will meet on Tuesday and Thursdays from 10
a.m. to noon, YMCA Secretary
Bob Vetter said.
Mrs. Jack Dean, wife of the
YMCA’s athletic director, will
conduct the classes. Mrs. Dean
has taught physical education
classes at North Greenville Junior College. Featured in the
classes will be an opening exercise period for 30 minutes, followed by an hour’s session of
indoor games, including basketball, volleyball and badminton….
Sumter Dog Winner of National Crown — Sumter, one of
the doggiest little towns in the
country, now has a second national champion to go along

with R.P. Skinner’s Santee Sam.
Bill Chaney’s liver-and-white
pointer, Dan, turned in an outstanding performance in the
National Amateur Pheasant
Championships at Baldwinsville, N.Y., to capture first place
in the prestige-laden event and
give Sumter its second national
winner.
At The Movies — Featured
at the Sumter Theater is “For
Love or Money” starring Kirk
Douglas, Mitzi Gaynor and Gig
Young. The Carolina was offering “Just for Fun” and “Queen
of the Pirates.” Also “A Farewell
to Arms,” starring Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones and Vittorio
De Sica, also “Johnny Cool”
with Henry Silva and Elizabeth
Montgomery.
The Sky-Vue Drive-In featured the “Naked Spur” the “Island of Love” and “Gypsy.”
Sports:
Phyllis Chapple Sets Record with High Game Score of
285 — A Sumter housewife had
the gallery mesmerized at
Gamecock Lanes when she
rolled a high game of 285 — the
highest score ever bowled in
South Carolina by a woman in
competition.
Not to be content with that,
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PANORAMA

THE ITEM

WEDDINGS

Roddey-Sawyer

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Burchstead-Nagy
COLUMBIA – Sarah Hunter
Burchstead and Travis Michael
Nagy were united in marriage on
Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013, at 701 Whaley.
The bride is the daughter of retired Maj. Gen. and Mrs. Harry Beck
Burchstead Jr. of
Sumter, and the
granddaughter of
Ramon Schwartz
Jr. and the late
Mrs. Schwartz of
Sumter and the
late Col. and Mrs.
Harry Beck Burchstead of Reidville.
She is a graduate
of the University of
South Carolina
with a bachelor of
arts in history and
religious studies
and a master’s degree in social work.
She was a youth
MRS. TRAVIS NAGY
development volunteer with the
Peace Corps in
Ukraine and is a case manager in
support services at Room in the Inn,
which serves Nashville’s homeless
population.
The bridegroom is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Danny Lee Smith of Fountain Inn and Jànos Sandor Nagy of
Pembrook Pines, Fla., and the
grandson of Ms. Patricia Ann Glasso
of Ocala, Fla., and the late Albert
Szumigalski of Harmony, Pa. He attended George Washington University and graduated from the University of South Carolina with a bachelor of arts in political science and a
juris doctorate from the School of
Law. He is employed by the Social
Security Administration as a senior

attorney adviser.
Escorted and given in marriage
by her father, the bride wore an
ivory gown with a timeless sheath
wedding tulle overlay, a beaded illusion bateau neckline and lacy delicate scalloped hem detail. She carried a bouquet of
lisianthus, delphinium, veronica, hydrangea, dahlia,
and the national
flower of Ukraine,
the sunflower.
The bride’s
cousin, Katherine
Anne Kapsidelis,
served as maid of
honor, with Allene
Burgess Johnson as
matron of honor.
The bridegroom’s father
served as best man,
and Robert Joseph
Oppermann served
as groomsman.
Ushers were Matthew Ramon
Burchstead, Michael Reid Burchstead, Wallace Edward Howard III,
Alexander Thomas Kapsidelis, Matthew Scott Loughran and Christopher Michael Riddle.
Dr. Harold Wendell French officiated at the ceremony.
The Jackson Sisters String Quartet provided the music for the ceremony.
The bridegroom’s parents held
the rehearsal party at Al’s Upstairs.
A reception followed the ceremony.
Following a wedding trip to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National
Parks, the couple resides in Nashville, Tenn.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 2013

Emily Burgess Roddey of Sumter
and Philip Michael Sawyer of
Georgetown were united in marriage
at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 24, 2013,
at First Presbyterian Church in Sumter.
The bride is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Samuel Lathan Roddey III of
Sumter, and the
granddaughter of
Mrs. Dallas John Mahoney Jr. and the late
Mr. Mahoney and
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
Lathan Roddey Jr.,
all of Sumter, and
the late Robert Ernest Dunn. She
graduated from
Clemson University
with a bachelor of
science degree in
animal science with
a concentration in
equine business. She
is employed by Mt.
MRS. PHILIP SAWYER
Pleasant Plantation
in Andrews.
The bridegroom is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Paige Bolliver Sawyer III, and is the grandson of
the late Mr. and Mrs. Ray McDaniel
and the late Mr. and Mrs. Paige Bolliver Sawyer Jr., all of Georgetown.
He graduated from The Citadel with
a bachelor of science degree in criminal justice. He is employed by
Thompson Industrial Supply as general manager.
The Rev. Josie Holler and the Rev.
Raymond J. Fancher performed the
ceremony.
Music was provided by Mrs. Hamilton Stoddard, director of music and
organist; Mrs. Lauren Decker, violinist; Gary Hipp, bagpiper; and Mrs.
Marcy Bunnell Carl, soloist.
Given in marriage by her father,
the bride wore a silk ballgown-style

dress with an alencon lace bodice
and chapel train and a veil trimmed
with lace from her mother’s wedding
gown. She carried a bouquet of
white peonies, green hydrangeas,
sweet peas, ranunculus and wildflowers accented with succulents
and wild turkey
feathers.
Martha Annette
Roddey McCarley,
sister of the bride,
and Elizabeth
O’Cain Shaw
served as matrons
of honor. Bridesmaids were Mary
Elizabeth Bultman,
Kathryn Watson
McElveen, Nancy
Lee Sharp, Caroline
Bolen Tamsberg
and Kathleen Jones
Welch. Mary Boyd
McCarley served as
the flower girl.
The bridegroom’s father
served as best man.
Groomsmen were
Cary Ray Sawyer, brother of the
bridegroom, Wiley Craig Bell, Robert
Jackson McCarley IV, Robert Charles
O’Donnell, Raymond Grant Richards
and Richard Michaux White III. Ushers were Justin Dana Coker, Randolph Lee Harrellson Jr., Tradd Cook
Stuckey and William Belton White.
Also participating were Satcher
Bynum Armstrong, Katie Morgan
Brown, Amelia Macloskie, Stewart
Holler and Owings Holler.
The reception was given by the
bride’s parents at their family barn.
The rehearsal dinner was given by
the bridegroom’s parents at Hampton’s Main Room.
After a wedding trip to Playa Del
Carmen, Mexico, the couple will reside in Andrews.

ENGAGEMENT

Conley-James

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Renko-Clarkson

ELLOREE — Anna Annice ConThe bride was escorted by her faley of Elloree and William Hamilton
ther.
James Jr. of Sumter were united in
Lauren Rebecca Davis served as
marriage on Saturday, Aug. 3, 2013,
maid of honor, with Chelsea Fogle
at Trinity Lutheran Church.
Knott as matron of honor. BridesThe bride is the daughter of Mr.
maids were Madison Parker Bedenand Mrs. Charles Edward Conley of
baugh, Laura Amber Bryant, CatheElloree, and the granddaughter of
rine Whetstone Burnside, Laurie RaMrs. Robert Lide
mage Dyches, AliPolin and the late
son Elizabeth ElMr. Polin of Elliott, Caroline
loree, and the late
Smoak Farmer, SteMr. and Mrs. Leonfanie Cotton Kight
ard Harry Conley
and Ellen James
of Hagan, Ga. She
Peek.
graduated from
The brideCalhoun Academy
groom’s father
and Clemson Uniserved as best man.
versity and is purGroomsmen were
suing a degree in
Jesse Hunter
speech and lanReeves, Allen
guage pathology at
Douglas Brown,
South Carolina
Travis Allen Knott,
State University.
Tyler Conrad Law,
The bridegroom
Aaron Wesley
is the son of Mr.
McKeowen, Charles
and Mrs. William
Bradley Pavey,
MRS. WILLIAM JAMES JR.
Hamilton James
Brooks Edward
Sr., and the grandSmith, Ryan Walker
son of Mr. and
Truluck and MatMrs. Paul Copeland Gardner and
thew David Wannamaker.
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Whiteford
Also participating were Frances
James Sr., all of Sumter. He graduatHall Mann, Lauren Tyler Nettles,
ed from Thomas Sumter Academy
Casey Hendley Scott and Meredith
and Clemson University. He is emAshburn Yelton.
ployed by Whiteford Farms and TriThe reception was given by the
ple J Farms in Sumter.
bride’s parents.
The Rev. Daniel Barber officiated
The bridegroom’s parents held
at the ceremony.
the rehearsal party at the Heritage
Music was provided by Wayne
Museum in Elloree.
Smallridge, organist; and Robert
Following a wedding trip to the
Benjamin Davis and Kimberli RusBahamas, the couple resides in
sell, vocalists.
Sumter.

Diane Hollingsworth Renko of Sumter announces the engagement of her
daughter, Kelly Catherine Renko of
Chapel Hill, N.C., to John Gorman
Clarkson III of Chapel Hill, son of Diane
Clarkson and Mr. and Mrs. John Gorman Clarkson II, all of Columbia.
The bride-elect is also the daughter
of the late retired Lt. Col. Gregory John
Renko, and the granddaughter of the
late Mr. and Mrs. James Newton Hollingsworth III of Sarasota, Fla., and the
late Mr. and Mrs. George John Renko of
Duluth, Minn. She graduated from
Sumter High School and the University
of South Carolina cum laude and is a
master of fine arts candidate in costume technology at the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is emMISS RENKO, CLARKSON
ployed as a costumer for Playmakers
Repertory Theater at UNC.
The bridegroom-elect is the grandson of Mrs. Dorothy Cox and the late Arthur Cox of Gaston, and Mrs. Mary
Clarkson and the late John Gorman Clarkson of West Columbia. He graduated from A.C. Flora High School in Columbia and in May from the University
of South Carolina with a master’s degree in public health.
The wedding is planned for Jan. 4, 2014, at Church of the Holy Cross in
Sumter.

EARLY WEDDING / ENGAGEMENT DEADLINE
Engagement and wedding announcements for publication in the Sept. 8 edition of The Item, must
be submittedby noon on Aug. 29.
Engagement and wedding announcements of local interest are published on Sundays. The normal
deadline is noon on the preceding Monday. Holiday deadlines vary.
Engagement and wedding forms may be obtained at The Item or downloaded from The Item’s Web
site at www.TheItem.com. Please type or print all information, paying particular attention to names.
Do not print in all capital letters.
The Item charges the following fees: $95, wedding form announcement with photo; $90, wedding
form announcement without photo; $75, engagement form announcement with photo; and $70,
engagement form announcement without photo. If you would like your announcement to include information that is not on The Item form, there will be an additional $50 charge.
For information, call 774-1264.

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and I have
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been together for
needs to be done — reeight years, married
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for one. He is a great
shopping, etc. I apprecihusband who works
ate it, but it doesn’t feel
hard, is responsible,
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REFLECTIONS

SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 2013

THE ITEM

C3

In 1886, merchants
flock to Main Street
In part II of our return to 1886 Sumter, we will provide you
with a brief overview of several businesses and their owners who
played an integral role in the community’s development. Sumter
was experiencing a period of economic growth and expansion,
and merchants from the surrounding towns began to flock to
Sumter’s Main Street in order to share in the prosperity. Many of
these visionaries would share their talents in the political arena,
often occupying positions of leadership. Information used in preparing this article was taken from The Watchman and Southron
newspaper and was edited because of its length.

reflections

J. D. CRAIG was a
native of Fairfield
County who lived and
remained in business
here since 1850 was
among the earliest established businessmen.
Craig was
one of the
few practical cabinet
makers to
be found in
the state,
CRAIG
having
learned the trade with
H.M. Berry of Columbia, beginning his apprenticeship in 1850.
He secured a location
for his store at the corner of Main and Canal
streets. The original
building has been expanded
as other
buildings
have
been put
up until
there is a
cluster of
Sammy
five or six
WAY
frame
structures, all painted
white and neat in appearance. The facility
stocks a large inventory
of furniture and undertaking goods. Craig had
the ability to fill orders
for furniture and coffins
in short order, and his
business remained one
of the most stable of enterprises in the Sumter
business community for
many years.
ALTAMONT MOSES
was a native of Sumter
who entered the mercantile business at an
early age. His first partnership involved the
late M.E.
Cohen in
1874. He
retired
from this
business in MOSES
1879; however, he returned in 1881 purchasing the business. His
company employed six
or seven people and engaged in both a wholesale and retail business.
His management skills
enabled the company
to prosper, allowing it to
purchase some 2,000
bales of cotton per year.
The business also sold
some hundreds of tons
of fertilizers and generally supplied the wants
of hundreds of people
in Sumter and adjacent
counties.

His store, a 33-by-70
feet brick building with
two stories, was located
on the corner of Main
Street. Moses, often referred to as one of Sumter’s “town fathers,”
gave his business personal attention and
consistently promoted
Sumter’s best interests.
C.I. HOYT operated
one of the oldest business interests in Sumter.
The C.I. Hoyt Jewelry
Store started circa 1826
by Freeman Hoyt, who
was followed by his son
O.F. Hoyt. C.I. would
become a partner in the
enterprise and later became the sole proprietor until 1880 when he
ceded the business to
H.A. Hoyt.
The store developed
a large repair business
and carried a diverse
and substantial retail
stock. The owners, both
past and present, were
successful in developing a reputation for
honesty and for selling
only the finest merchandise.
T.C. SCAFFE was the
only merchant in Sumter who sold “stoves, tin
ware and house furnishings goods.” He enlisted in the Palmetto
Battery of Light Artillery
in 1861 and served as a
courier. He was born in
Darlington and later
moved to Sumter,
where in 1865 following
the Civil War he started
work as “a practical tinsmith.”
He became a partner
with A. Hauser in 1870,
taking sole proprietorship after two years. In
November 1883, he lost
his shop to fire, later rebuilding and opening a
store on the Hoyt block.
His store employed
seven men and featured
an expansive inventory
of “roofing, guttering
and spouting and specialized in sinking
wells. He sold a wide
variety of stoves “made
by prominent manufacturers of Reading, Philadelphia, Albany, Rome
and elsewhere;” his
store remained one of
the more successful establishments in the
business district.
B.J. BARNETT had
been a resident of this
county for 35 years. He
moved from Manville,
located 16 miles north

of the town, and began
operation of a general
merchandise business
while continuing to operate a farm. His interests in Manville were
the responsibility of his
two sons, “Nat” and
Isaac Barnett.
Barnett was “a general dealer, as a buyer of
cotton, he annually
handles from 800 to
1,000 bales.” The Barnett Co. was also responsible for selling between 100 to 200 hundred tons of fertilizer a
year. His store usually
employed five salesmen
who understood the
needs and wants of
their customers. The
business was housed in
a building made of
brick that measured 35
by 90 feet and had a
large, well-stocked
salesroom featuring a
variety of products.
A.A. SOLOMONS
“was a native of Sumter
and among the oldest
of its businessmen. It
was fully 65 years since
his father, the late M.
Solomons, established
the business; and ever
since his boyhood, Mr.
A.A. Solomons was associated with it. For a
number of years he and
his brother, the late J.T.
Solomons, were in partnership,” but it is believed they separated in
1868 leaving A.A. the
sole proprietor.
The building was a
large brick structure,
“stuccoed in imitation
brown stone and fronts
82 feet on Main Street
by 130 feet on Liberty
Street.”
The store was usually
manned by 14 or 15
people. The business
not only engaged in the
wholesale and retail
business, but also purchased about 1,000
bales of cotton a year.
The Solomons Co. enjoyed a wide-reaching
clientele and worked
hard to please frequent
shoppers.
J.F.W. DELORME
was “the oldest druggist
of Sumter ... who, like
so many of his brother
merchants, was a native
of the town.” Delorme
entered the drug store
business in 1852 with
two partners, J.M. Wilder and F.J. Moses. He
served during the Civil
War in the 9th S.C. Reg-

iment, completing one
year before a disability
ended his service. He
later enlisted in the
Quartermaster Department.
DeLorme was elected warden of the community, serving two
years before leaving
public service. His drug
store was neat in appearance and well
stocked with products
necessary for the drug
business. The shelves
were stocked with numerous medicines,
paints, oils, dye materials, toilet articles and
cigars. His store was designed to provide his
customers with those
supplies usually not
found in a general store.
DR. A.J. CHINA was
also involved in the
pharmacy business and
The interior of the B.J. Barnett store, located on Main Street, is seen. This retail and whole- like many of Sumter’s
sale enterprise was well stocked and was a favorite of Sumter shoppers.
prominent business-

ABOVE: A.A. Solomons was
one of Sumter’s leading
businessmen. His store
would become Sumter
Dry Goods, which was
popular with Sumter
consumers.
LEFT: J.D. Craig’s furniture
store was located at the
intersection of Canal and
Main streets. Craig, noted
for his woodworking
abilities, constructed both
furniture and coffins in his
workshop.
PHOTOS PROVIDED

men was a native of this
community. He began
his study of medicine
under the tutelage of
Dr. Dargan of Greenville. In 1860, he graduated from the Medical
College of the State of
South Carolina. When
South Carolina seceded, he enlisted in the
Army and
CHINA
became an
assistant surgeon, serving from 1861 to the
conclusion of the war.
In 1865, he entered
into a partnership with
his father-in-law, the
late A. Anderson, until
1870 when Anderson
died. In 1875-76 he
opened his place of
business on Main Street
next to Ryttenberg’s
large mercantile store.
The building was con-

structed of brick and
measured 25 by 70 feet;
it was one of the largest
drug stores in the state
at that time. The business was usually
manned by three or
four regular salesmen
including I.A. McKagen, the prescription
clerk, who worked for
China 10 years; B.R.
Sanders, four years;
and A.E. Eberhart, two
years.
China endeavored to
manage his drug store
while continuing to
meet the needs of his
medical practice. In addition to his numerous
business concerns, he
also served as vice president of the National
Bank.
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PBS loves Honey Boo Boo; Public TV unique once again
BY DAVID BAUDER
AP Television Writer
NEW YORK — Honey Boo Boo, the
management at PBS wants to thank
you.
You, too, real housewives. And
naked castaways, Long Island princesses, breakaway Amish, storage warriors, pawn stars and pickers. People at
public television may not want to
watch you, but they are happy to see
you.
When Discovery, The Learning
Channel, History, Bravo, A&E and similar networks emerged, there was a
real fear it could lead to the death of
PBS. Each specialized network would
pick off a portion of PBS’ audience for
programs on science, nature, history
and the arts. Founded as an alternative
to commercial TV, PBS was losing
what made it unique.
Yet in the past few years, these cable
networks discovered that it was much
more profitable to create reality TV
stars. PBS’ path was cleared, and it is
making the most of its new chance.
“It is now once again something
that the viewer can’t get anywhere
else,” said Beth Hoppe, PBS’ programming chief.
PBS’ viewership slipped steadily
starting in 1993, which hardly made it
unusual in a world with an ever-increasing number of choices. Since
2009, that trend has reversed. PBS’ average prime-time audience has ticked
back up from 1.9 million four years
ago to 2.1 million now, with the
growth faster among young people.
Certainly the sensation of “Downton
Abbey” is a key factor, but the growth
isn’t just on Sunday.
Hoppe is trying to infuse PBS with
new energy, make its projects more
timely and get her colleagues to treat it

THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

“Downton Abbey” has proved to be one of the most popular series ever shown on PBS.
The original cast is shown here. The fourth season will begin on Jan. 5, 2014, with several
changes in the cast, including the absence of Matthew and the addition of the show’s
first black character.

as a television network instead of just
a public service.
Hoppe worked at PBS stations in
New Hampshire, Boston and New
York City and remembers well the
worries when new cable networks
started.
“We were concerned that people
would consider us irrelevant because
we were no longer providing a service,
or that we would no longer be perceived as providing a service that people couldn’t get anywhere else,” she
said. Maybe PBS’ programs were better, but that might not matter, she said.
She left PBS to join the new wave,
taking a job at Discovery to produce
science programming for its networks.
She knew it was time for something
else when an executive asked her to go
to Los Angeles to “add sex and celebrities” to the “Curiosity” series she was
working on. Hoppe talked to old friend
Paula Kerger, the president and CEO of
the Public Broadcasting Service, to see
if there was room for her if she returned.

YESTERYEAR from Page C1
she took a short break and
went back to roll a high series
of 617, first time in her five
years of organized bowling that
she hit the 600 mark….
Sumter High School Defeats Aiken 27-0 — Humiliated at A.C. Flora’s homecoming
last week, Edmunds High’s
Gamecocks bounced back at
their own last night as they ran
over, around and above the
Aiken Hornets in a resounding
27-0 victory. Aiken never got
past the Sumter 50-yard line
until the final quarter, while
the Gamecocks ground out 387
yards, 207 in the air as quarterbacks Tommy Edens and
Jimmy Buck completed 10 of
20 pass attempts….
Monarchs Gain Tie for
Crown by Dumping Hillcrest
32-12 — The Manning Monarchs clinched a tie for loop
champions in Conference 6A
by rolling over the visiting Hillcrest Wildcats by a 32-12 score.
Manning’s powerhouse
slashed through the porous
Wildcat line once in each of
the first two periods, twice in
the third, and once in the
fourth.
Latta Earns Loop Crown
Over Furman — Latta downed
Furman 20-13 at Latta to sew
up Conference 5B honors. Furman has to shoot for second
place in the loop now with two
games that count remaining.
Bulldogs Visit Strong Cousins — The Lincoln Bulldogs
will travel to Georgetown for
their toughest game of the season where they will meet the
powerful Bulldogs of Howard
High. So far this season the
Bulldogs have played six
games. They salvaged their first
victory last week against five
defeats….
Morris Claims 18-6 Victory
Over Staters — Morris College
boasting a 3-2 overall record
and 2-0 in the conference goes
to Kittrell, N.C. next weekend
to try to add to its success
streak. Last Saturday, the team
dumped Savannah State by
18-6 on the local school’s
field…Coach Leo Richardson
commented that his boys
didn’t play up to their ability
until the end of the game. He
figures the team should have
done better than they did but
he’s glad to get the win….

Even with the lure of a big
prize giveaway, Sumter’s semipro Generals attracted only
some 200 spectators to the fairgrounds Saturday night but
those who attended saw a
hard-fought, defensive game
won by Sumter 15-0…
75 YEARS AGO —1938-39
Jan. 19-25
Sports:
The Sumter “Y” Midgets
and Junior Dragon basketball
teams won a doubleheader last
night from the Olympia High
School Midget and Junior
teams. The local Midgets won
21-13 and the Sumter Juniors
35-19. Last night’s victory was
the sixth consecutive win
against out of town opponents
for the local Midgets and the
fifth for the Sumter Juniors…
Central Teams Down Hillcrest — The Central teams
from Lee County made it a
perfect day when they defeated
the Hillcrest boys and girls in a
doubleheader played at Hillcrest Tuesday. In the opening
game, the Central team was
complete master of the situation winning by a 30-14 count.
Denton and Cook were outstanding for Central. The Jones
sisters, centers for Hillcrest,
were their teams best….
Pinewood Cagers Win
Doubleheader — Pinewood
opened its league season with
wins over the Gable boys and
girls teams Wednesday afternoon. The local girls won 11-8,
while the Gable’s boys fell before the onslaught of goals shot
by McLeod and Johnson. The
score was 34 to 9.
In and Around the Town:
It took the city police, rural
police, state constables and
federal enforcement officers
several years to catch a bootlegger and the courts a lot of
time and expense to convict
and sentence him to one year’s
imprisonment. Right off the
bat the late Gov. Johnston
commuted the sentence to
three months.
Sumter merchants unanimously went on record, at a
meeting at the Board of Trade,
as being against a sales tax.
President W.D. Boykin was instructed to appoint a committee of three to attend a meeting, if and when one is held, to
protest the passage of sales tax

There was, and by last December,
she was made responsible for PBS’
programming department.
Hoppe cites Animal Planet’s mermaids shows as examples of something PBS would never do. “Mermaids:
The Body Found” played like a documentary but was an admitted fake and
was a huge success, spawning a sequel.
PBS, meanwhile, is a Snookie-free
zone.
“It’s not that the programming is
bad,” Kerger said. “It’s just different,
that’s all. They’re in a different business.”
Hoppe has tried to make PBS more
topical, ordering a lengthy examination of guns in America that ran a
month after the Newtown, Conn.,
school shooting. She pushed PBS producers for programs looking at the
Boston Marathon bombing, the meteorite that exploded over Russia in February and Superstorm Sandy.
“She comes to her job with a filmmaker’s sensibility,” said John Bredar,

legislation by the General Assembly. The action of the Sumter merchants will be communicated to A.L.M. Wiggins of
Hartsville, president of the
Merchant’s Association of
South Carolina. It is considered
almost a certainty that efforts
to put through a sales tax will
be made at the present session
of the Legislature.
A Camellia Japonica fancier
dropped in at the Sumter Cemetery to see and admire a large
Prof. Sergeant camellia that is
in full bloom this week. He
said the plant is extraordinary.
Joe McMillan, a black farmer in the Oswego section, harvested 531 bushels of corn
from 5 acres and 4,062 pounds
(8 bales) of lint cotton from 5
acres last year. On the same 10
acres he harvested 377 bushels
of corn and 3202 pounds of lint
cotton in 1937.…
Mayor F.B. Creech, county
chairman for the Infantile Paralysis campaign, stated today
that the campaign is making
excellent progress. He requests
that committeemen who have
not yet reported collections do
so within the next few days. He
hopes to close the campaign
on or before the 25th….
Henry Richardson, of Pinewood, has been appointed elevator operator in the state
House by Speaker Sol Blatt.
The P.T.A. of Sumter is trying
to act as foster parents of those
children who are not adequately provided for by parents
of legal guardians. A number
of these beneficiaries of the
P.T.A. need clothing, school
books and wholesome food.
These necessities the P.T.A. endeavors to provide and is doing
the best job possible with the
means available. A report
printed elsewhere throws light
on the work being done this
year and the need for larger resources.
The coldest weather the
oldest citizen of Sumter recollects was during the week of
Jan. 12, 1886. He says the thermometer dropped below zero,
and the ponds were frozen
over for a week or 10 days;
skating and sleigh riding were
popular sports. The year 1886
was unique in one other particular the terrifying earthquake occurred Aug. 31st.
The time has arrived to
again mention the desirability
of public drinking fountains on

vice president of national programming at Boston’s WGBH, the largest
supplier of PBS programming. “She
understands things from the ground
up as a producer, as opposed to someone who just commissions work. She’s
someone who has a visceral understanding of what the market is like.”
In October, PBS’ “Frontline” is collaborating with ESPN for “Concussion
Watch,” an investigation into health issues caused by violent collisions in the
National Football League.
PBS will aggressively mine anniversaries as programming hooks. This fall
brings an “American Masters” special
on Billie Jean King 40 years after her
“Battle of the Sexes” tennis match with
Bobby Riggs and a show on “War of
the Worlds” 75 years after the radio
program incited panic.
As with other networks, the 50th
anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination will be given attention. PBS’ programming will include a four-hour portrait of Kennedy,
a “cold case” look at evidence in the
shooting and a minute-by-minute
recap of the killing from the firing of
shots to when CBS’ Walter Cronkite reported Kennedy’s death.
That’s what Hoppe means when
she talks about thinking like a network instead of just a service, anticipating the interests of viewers. There’s
a difference between waiting to see
what work producers will offer you
and actively going out with some of
your own ideas.
PBS is also trying to bring more
consistency to a schedule that encompasses several genres. Programmers
call it “flow,” and in this case it means
concentrating science programming
on Wednesday, arts on Friday, with
more history and news-oriented
shows on Monday and Tuesday.

the streets.
Manning Avenue would be
greatly improved by the planting of trees along the parkways.
It seems that something was
said about this at the time the
trees then along the street were
dug up for the widening program. Now is the time to set
out the trees along this street, if
they are going to be planted at
all. Soon it will be too late for
the coming growing season
and another year will pass before the work can be safely
done.
All the abrupt curves on
Highway 76 between the river
and Sumter will be eliminated
during the reconstruction program now underway. The road
will be relocated at several
points.
Local News:
The Sumter Kiwanis Club
held its regular meeting Friday
at the Claremont Hotel with a
large percentage of the club in
attendance.
The program was in charge
of John Lee, chairman of the
committee on Kiwanis education. The speaker was Dr. Orin
Crow, professor at the University of South Carolina. Dr. Crow
is a member of the Kiwanis International committee on Kiwanis education and spoke
with a great deal of interest and
force of what the committee is
trying to accomplish during
this year. He reviewed the past
year in Kiwanis, and explained
a few of the objectives that
each club can reach with emphasis on “building” characters, communities and personalities. He complimented the
Sumter club on its fine spirit
and the many ways in which
the club is striving to live up to
the Kiwanis ideals….
Jack’s Announces Big Closing Sale — Announcement is
made of the closing of Jack’s
New Store at 12 S. Main St. in
the near future. On this occasion this firm is staging the biggest sale in its history and is offering a complete stock of high
grade ladies’ ready-to-wear at
slashed prices.
This concern has been in
operation in Sumter for a number of years and has the reputation of carrying dependable
merchandise at reasonable
prices. The management in
announcing the closing of this
store is giving the people of
Sumter and vicinity the oppor-

tunity of purchasing this stock
at unheard of prices.
Rotary Club — The Rotary
Club met at the Claremont
Hotel with President W.E. Covington in the chair. There was a
large attendance of members
and several visiting Rotarians.
S.L. Roddey, one of the
seven charter members still affiliated with the club, was introduced by George Warren,
program chairman, as speaker
of the day. The club was organized in December 1921, with
25 members, but before the
charter was delivered and the
club formally instituted in January, John H. Clifton, one of
the number, died. Since then
11 of the charter members
have passed away. S.L. Roddey
was the first secretary and the
third president — S.H. Edmunds and Dr. J.A. Mood preceded him as president.
Kenneth Markwell, PWA
project engineer, said today
that the WPA had approved
specifications for the Pinopolis
power house substructure,
lock and dam of the SanteeCooper power and navigation
project.
Bids will be opened Feb. 28.
The power house will be 160
feet wide and 380 feet long.
The power house and lock will
consume 196,000 cubic yards
of concrete and there will be
3,700,000 cubic yards of earth
in the dam.
Guide to the Movies:
The Sumter Theater featured “Sweethearts” on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
Starring in the film were Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson
Eddy, Frank Morgan, Florence
Rice and Herman Bing. On
Thursday and Friday, “If I Were
King” with Ronald Colman,
Basil Rathbone, Frances Dee,
and Ellen Drew was offered.
Saturday featured “Mr. Doodle
Kicks Off,” with Joe Penner,
June Travis and Richard Lane.
The Rex Theater offered
“Disbarred” with Gail Patrick,
Robert Preston and Otto Kruger on Tuesday. On Thursday
“The Crowd Roars,” with Robert Taylor, Edward Arnold,
Frank Morgan and Maureen
O’Hara began followed by
“Guilty Trail,” featuring Bob
Baker and Marjorie Reynolds,
was scheduled for Saturday.
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Way at waysammy@yahoo.
com or (803) 774-1294.

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SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 2013
Contact the newsroom at (803) 774-1226 or e-mail news@theitem.com

‘A celebration of life’

ABOVE: Authur Grant installs hardware
on a casket at Sumter Casket Co.
BELOW: Michael James, operations
manager of Sumter Casket Co., stands
next to a picture of his great-grandfather, J.T. James, that hangs in the lobby
on South Magnolia Street. His father,
J.T. “Bubba” James III, still comes into
the office regularly.

PHOTOS PROVIDED

Sandra Conyers installs a patriotic-themed head panel in a coffin at Sumter Casket Co. The local company offers many
customizations ranging from the head panel to the type of wood or metal to colors and sizes.

JADE ANDERSON / THE ITEM

Longtime Sumter business creates custom caskets
Michael James’ grandfather, J.T.
James Jr., also worked at Sumter Casket, and his grandmother, Eleanor
James, worked in the office for 63
One local manufacturer has been
in business for more than 120 years in years.
The company serves all of South
Sumter, and like all thriving industry,
Carolina
as well as parts of North Carit has had to change with the times.
olina
and
Georgia.
“The baby boomers are more per“We
buy
a shell,” James said. “We
sonalized individuals,” said Michael
prime
it,
sand
it, paint it what color it
James, operations manager of Sumter
needs
to
be,
put
handles on it and
Casket Co. “They want what they
sew
the
interior
here.
It gives us a lot
want whether it’s a fire engine red or
of
flexibility
to
work
with
the funeral
a Carolina or Clemson casket.”
directors.
It’s
really
more
for
the living
He is the fourth generation of
than
the
deceased
to
help
celebrate
Jameses to own a majority share of
that life. That is how we look at our
the business and has worked at the
job, as a celebration of life.”
place for close to 20 years.
The company’s
“I do a little bit of evmotto
is “Committed to
erything,” he said. “Orthe
Celebration
of Life.”
dering, sales, marketing.
He
usually
sells
200
Just day-to-day opera‘It’s really more
to
300
caskets
a
month
tions. I can line a casket
with January through
and paint. I can sand
for the living
April typically being his
and put handles or
other hardware. I can
than the deceased busiest time of the year.
“It’s flu and pneudrive the truck. The
monia
season,” James
only thing I can’t do is
to help celebrate
said. “In winter, the
sew.
death rate is up, and
“Fortunately, I have a that life. That is
that affects business.”
great group of employThe seasonal changees (from) painters and
how we look at
es often affect the color
seamstresses to help
choices as well.
paint, line, trim and de- our job, as a
“October, November
liver the casket quick,
and
December we tend
sometimes just in time
celebration of life.’
to see browns and more
for the funeral. Somefall colors,” James said.
times we get a call at 9
“We see brighter colors
a.m., and they want it
in the summertime.”
by 4 p.m. the same day.
Michael James,
Besides special colUsually it’s more of a
ors, the company offers
24-hour turnaround. It’s operations
cloth-covered caskets.
not a Monday to Friday
Head panels can be
business. We don’t like
manager of
changed to feature relito ship on Sunday, but
gious themes, sports
sometimes we have to.”
Sumter Casket Co.
teams, hobbies, occuThe company curpations or outdoor
rently employs 12 peoscenes such as hunting and fishing. A
ple.
screen print of a digital photo can
“My father (J.T. “Bubba” James III)
even be embroidered or vinyl emstill comes in here about every day,”
blems affixed on the outside of the
Michael James said. “We call it being
casket, too.
a little retired. He works, but he en“We try to customize it exactly as
joys his freedom.”
the family wants,” James said. “We talk
Founded in the 1890s by the Witherspoon brothers, the company origi- to funeral directors to get ideas of what
families are asking for. Probably once a
nally made furniture as well as cofweek I hear about something I never
fins. It wasn’t long before they hired
would have thought of putting in a
J.T. James, and in the early 1900s, he
casket or that they may not have 20
purchased controlling interest of the
years ago. Figuring out how to make
company.
BY JADE ANDERSON
janderson@theitem.com

this decal or manufacture this color
keeps it from getting boring. Custom
stuff is the fun side of it, so to speak.”
While he sells more metal-oriented pieces, the company also offers a
wooden line including kosher and orthodox boxes.
“They are doweled
and pegged
ged together
with no metal to meet
the rabbi
bi or diocese
needs,” James said. “We
can use anything from a
plain pine
ne box with no
finish to maple, mahogany or oak.”
k.”
The company
ompany also offers a simple
mple veneer wood
such as solid
pecan
for cremation
and a
green
line
that
features
paint
with no harsh chemicals, which
ich is very
similar to the
orthodox models, James said.
Sumter Casket
has larger caskets
— taller, wider or
both — as well as
children’s and
youth caskets.

“Children’s caskets are not something I enjoy, but it’s unfortunately a
necessary part of society,” James said.
For more information on Sumter
Casket Co., visit sumtercasket.com.
Reach Jade Anderson at (803)
774-1250.

TOP: Hunting and fishing themes are available along with
sport
Co. The company’s motto is “Committed to
port team themes at Sumter Casket Co
the Celebration of Life,” which means offering personalized options to customers, said
Michael James, operations manager.
ABOVE: The tractor scene is part of the occupation line the company offers. The head
panel can also feature religious, patriotic or personalized themes.

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BUSINESS
THE ITEM

SUNDAY, AUGUST 25, 2013
Contact the newsroom at (803) 774-1226 or e-mail news@theitem.com

‘A celebration of life’

ABOVE: Authur Grant installs hardware
on a casket at Sumter Casket Co.
BELOW: Michael James, operations
manager of Sumter Casket Co., stands
next to a picture of his great-grandfather, J.T. James, that hangs in the lobby
on South Magnolia Street. His father,
J.T. “Bubba” James III, still comes into
the office regularly.

PHOTOS PROVIDED

Sandra Conyers installs a patriotic-themed head panel in a coffin at Sumter Casket Company. The local company offers
many customizations ranging from the head panel to the type of wood or metal to colors and sizes.

JADE ANDERSON / THE ITEM

Sumter business creates custom caskets

‘It’s really more
for the living
than the deceased to help
celebrate that
life. That is how
we look at our
job, as a celebration of life.’
Michael James,
operations
manager of
Sumter Casket Co.

TOP: Hunting and fishing themes are available along with sport team
themes at Sumter Casket Company. The company’s motto is “Committed to the Celebration of Life,” which means offering personalized options to customers, said Michael James, operations manager.
ABOVE: The tractor scene is part of the occupation line Sumter Casket
Company offers. The head panel can also feature religious, patriotic
or personalized themes.

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CITY OF SUMTER
REQUESTS APPLICATIONS
FOR
PRIME CONTRACTOR
PREQUALIFICATION
The City of Sumter, South Carolina,
is initiating a Prime Contractor
prequalification process for an
Invitation to Bid on the Opera House
Renovations Phase II Project and is
seeking Contractors to submit
prequalification applications. The
City of Sumter has determined that
bidders who submit bids on this
project
must
be
prequalified.
Prequalified
bidders
will
be
required
to
have
renovation
experience similar to the Phase II
Project.
The prequalification process will
consist of a written application that
all Contractors must submit if
interested in submitting a bid for the
Phase II Project. Once a Contractor
has achieved prequalification status,
they will be given the contract
documents and instructions for
submitting a bid. Bids from only the
Prequalified
Contractors
are
tentatively scheduled to be opened
on September 12, 2013. The lowest
responsive
Contractor
will
be
awarded
the
contract.
Only
Contractors in the Prequalified pool
of prospective bidders will be
eligible to bid the project.
The
application
outlines
the
requirements that must be submitted
to the City for review and
determination of prequalification.
All applications must be submitted
to the City of Sumter no later than
8:30am on Wednesday, August 28,
2013.
The application may be examined on
the City of Sumter website at
http://www.sumtersc.gov/rfprfqs.aspx
or can be requested from Alice
Bailey
at
(803)
436-2587,
abailey@sumter-sc.com
or
Key
Architecture,
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Key
at
(843)665-6646, rkey@keyarc.com.

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August 26, 2013, 6:30 PM
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(0.3 miles north of U.S. Hwy 378)
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The MacGyver
of histo
dads
Rick
has learned
improvise
group,
Rick
has
learned
to on
with his twin toddlers
improvise
with
his
twin
A&E’s “Modern Dads,” airing
toddlers on A&E's "Modern
at
10:30
p.m.
Wednesday.
Dads,"
airing
Wednesday

fancied it up a little bit more. You
know, I think how I got that name is I
kind of found a lot of shortcuts in taking care of four kids."
Even so, as Rick advises the other
fathers, "Anytime that you try to make
parenting more hands-off, you're
almost doomed to fail, because there's
no easy away around parenting a kid.
It's kind of down and dirty, and I think
one of the things that Sean and Nathan
try to do on one episode is they were
going to make themselves as hands-off
as possible, and I come in and kind of
bust them about it, because I'm like,
'There's no easy way around this, guys
- you have to watch your kids. It's not
like you can childproof your entire
house and that gives you time to
watch TV.'"
But despite his vigilance, Rick maintains an easy-going attitude that keeps
the mood light and his sanity intact.
"I'm a big-picture guy," he explains.
"My motto is 'Don't sweat the small
stuff,' like today I had these two girls
and they're 19 months old, they're flying all over the house, running and
stuff, [but] when they fall down, we
have our typical expression, 'Down
goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!' [like]
the Howard Cosell call [at the
Muhammad Ali-Joe Frazier fight]. And
that's the way we handle it - if you fall,
you know, just get up. It's not a big
deal. And I think that's one of the big
differences when guys raise kids."
Sure, the female of the species is
built for nurturing, but many men can
be every bit as sensitive and responsive to a child's needs, and without
sacrificing their masculinity.
"Women are expected to be mothers,
but very rarely are men expected to be
fathers," Rick observes. "I mean, it's
OK for a mother to stay home with her
kids, but it's not OK for a man to stay
home with his kids. It is a double standard, but I think it's changing a lot.
And I've been asked this in the past,

'Does it make you feel like less of a
man because you stay at home with
your kids?' And I'm like, 'Well, it's not
like every man has a job wrestling alligators, you know, that's very masculine, or you really confirm your masculinity when you go to work. What
more masculine of a duty do you have
than taking responsibility for your
kids?'"
There is a darker side of the cultural
bias against men as caregivers for
small children that Rick is quick to
acknowledge. "I can remember a time
when I would have to wait in my car
before I would go out in the park with
my kids, you know, to keep others from
calling the cops - I was waiting for
another dad, and then we would show
up in a group. There were times in
some of the more affluent neighborhoods where if I showed up with my
kids at the park, it was a very suspicious activity to see a child with a
man. And if you read any kind of news
story, where don't you get the juxtaposition of men and children as always
some sort of criminal activity? And you
never see it in a more positive light. I
heard some guy talking the other day
about the role fathers play in a family
and how important that is, and you
don't really hear that talked about a lot
in the media."
Rick stresses that much of the positivity of stay-at-home fatherhood is
the delight of getting to spend so
much time with your children. "When
we were weighing the idea of doing
this show," he relates, "it was very
much a point of emphasis for us that
we can have fun with this and we can
laugh at ourselves. I mean, God knows
you have to have a sense of humor to
do this, because you'll drive yourself
crazy if you don't. You know, Nathan
and Sean and Stone and I, when we
get together we have fun, and I hope
that really comes out in this show."

HIGHLIGHTS
Family Dance Off
8:00 p.m. on WOLO
Derek Hough of “Dancing With The Stars”
hosts a dancing competition of five families
with a wide array
of styles dancing
on a Hollywood
stage in front of a
live studio audience, who will vote
for their favorites in
order to win the
$10,000 prize. (HD)
Disney’s Shake
Sunday at 8 p.m.
It Up!
on WOLO, Derek
8:30 p.m. on DISN
Hough hosts
"Family Dance
Rocky and CeCe
Off," featuring
attempt to host a
five families who gigantic 16th birthday celebration, but
get the chance
their mothers canto dance on a
Hollywood stage. not come to a decision on any of their
suggestions; after CeCe locates a video of
her mom’s 16th birthday party, she has a
realization. (HD)
Breaking Bad
9:00 p.m. on AMC
Jesse Pinkman tries to put his past behind
him and change his life for the better but
the transformation proves to be a difficult
challenge; Walt and Skylar are forced to
drop everything around them and focus on
an unexpected demand. (HD)
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
9:00 p.m. on SYFY
When a deadly international arms dealer
and his organization begin a campaign of
global destruction, an elite, clandestine military unit is deployed to counter the evil villain’s attacks with advanced technology and
tactics. (HD)
Gran Torino
9:00 p.m. on TNT
After an aging, disgruntled veteran of the
Korean War catches his Asian neighbor’s
son trying to steal the 1972 Gran Torino he
dearly prizes, he faces his racial prejudices
while he becomes involved in the troubled
teenager’s life. (HD)

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MONDAY EVENING AUGUST 26

King Kong
8:00 p.m. on AMC
An adventurous filmmaker takes the cast
and crew of his latest movie to a mysterious island inhabited by dangerous creatures, including a massive, kindhearted ape
that falls in love with the film’s compassionate leading actress. (HD)
Escape From Polygamy
8:00 p.m. on LIFE
When a young man and woman from a
strict religious sect find themselves falling
for one another, they come up against the
polygamist laws
that define their
culture, a jealous,
patriarchal
“prophet” and the
fear of the unknown
journey that lies
ahead. (HD)
Mike & Molly
9:30 p.m. on WLTX Joyce (Swoosie
Kurtz) shirks her
When Vince suddenly throws out
duty when
his back, Joyce is
Vince suddenly
conveniently
throws out his
nowhere to be
back on "Mike &
found, leaving Mike Molly," airing
and Molly stuck
Monday at
with having to take 9:30 p.m. on
care of him; the
WLTX.
newlyweds struggle
with writing personalized thank-you notes
for their wedding gifts. (HD)
An Amish Murder
10:00 p.m. on LIFE
An Amish girl tragically affected by a brutal
string of murders in her small community
leaves her past behind and grows up to be
the town’s police chief, but an investigation
within the Amish district surfaces issues
from her childhood once again. (HD)
Mistresses
10:01 p.m. on WOLO
Karen’s deposition into the death and coverup of her lover begins and his son promises
to be her alibi; Joss tells Harry that Savi
hasn’t opened up the paternity results; April
and Richard have to go on an amusement
park date for their children. (HD)

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HIGHLIGHTS

TUESDAY EVENING AUGUST 27

NCIS
8:00 p.m. on WLTX
The NCIS team investigates the murder of a
Mossad officer in Virginia; Ziva finds a lead
on Bodnar and decides to take Tony with
her to Berlin in hopes of finding her father’s
killer and finally avenging his untimely
death. (HD)
Covert Affairs
9:00 p.m. on USA
Annie finds she has met her match when
she has to work to halt the illegal sale of
deadly weapons and is teamed up with a
seasoned operative; circumstances force
Auggie to deal with past demons; Calder’s
suspicions of Annie Walker grow.
Heroes of Cosplay
10:00 p.m. on SYFY
Cosplayers, both seasoned and beginners,
from the world of cosplay go head-to-head
in competition, as they travel to Orlando in
order to prepare for the intense cosplay
action of Megacon at the Orange County
Convention Center.
Perception
10:00 p.m. on TNT
After deciding to take matters into her own
hands, Morretti is charged with criminal
activity; Pierce
works to prove
Kate’s innocence,
but as more evidence is gathered,
everyone involved
begins to question
the legality of her
actions. (HD)
Tommy (Mark
Body of Proof
Valley) and
10:00 p.m. on
Megan investiWOLO
gate after a
When a mentally
disturbed teenager schizophrenic
is found murdered
girl is found
in a mental institu- murdered on
tion Megan and
"Body of Proof,"
Tommy find a
airing Tuesday
patient seemingly
at 10 p.m. on
lucid and complete- WOLO.
ly sane that says
she witnessed the killer climbing down
from a heating vent and meant to kill
her. (HD)

HIGHLIGHTS
The Mummy Returns
8:00 p.m. on AMC
An 8-year-old boy tries on the Bracelet of
Anubis and finds that if he doesn’t go to an
Egyptian site within seven days, he will die
as the Scorpion King and his army returns,
and then he’s kidnapped by a cult which has
resurrected Imhotep. (HD)
Hidden Away
8:00 p.m. on LIFE
In an attempt to escape her abusive husband and begin a new life with her daughter, a woman fakes her own death and
moves into an
upscale neighborhood, but her past
catches up with her
and her husband,
seething over her
actions, plans his
revenge. (HD)
Modern Family
Cam (Eric
9:00 p.m. on
WOLO
Stonestreet) conMitch joins Cam in
vinces Mitch to
join his efforts to an effort to save a
save an old tree tree in a park; Jay
and Manny are
on "Modern
pushed out of their
Family," airing
comfort zones
Wednesday at
9 p.m. on WOLO. when they attend
an Olympic-themed
birthday party; Claire takes Gloria on
Costco-run, but “pregnancy brain” makes it
an eventful trip. (HD)
Top Chef Masters
10:00 p.m. on BRAVO
Actress Mindy Kaling tasks the chefs to create dishes based on her favorite romantic
comedies, after which they must incorporate the least favorite ingredients of children into fun dishes with help of cast members from Yo Gabba Gabba.
Gone Missing
10:00 p.m. on LIFE
When her daughter mysteriously vanishes
from a San Diego resort during spring
break, a worried mother becomes determined to locate her, but while out investigating she uncovers a set of disturbing
clues that point to her daughter’s true
intentions. (HD)

HIGHLIGHTS
Motive
8:00 p.m. on WOLO
When an executive assistant is found dead
in a hotel room, Flynn and Vega quickly find
a suspect with adequate means and
opportunity, but hit
a wall as far as
motive in concerned, though
Angie discovers
something that
could lead to a larger secret. (HD)
After a murder
in a hotel room,
Project Runway
Detective Oscar 9:00 p.m. on LIFE
Following last
Vega (Louis
Ferreira) finds a week’s unexpected
suspect but no elimination, the
"Motive," on the remaining designers realize they
WOLO series'
need to step up
season finale,
their game on the
Thursday at
runway; the partici8 p.m.
pants get a chance
to raid the shoe closet of Marie Claire; Kaley
Cuoco and Anne Fulenwider help judge.
(HD)
Pawn Stars
9:30 p.m. on HIST
Rick and Chumlee may purchase a seller’s
near mint condition 1969 Camaro Z28; the
guys view a first edition 1878 baseball
scorebook, published by Harry Wright, the
“Father of Professional Baseball”; Corey
needs a financial advisor. (HD)
Owner’s Manual
10:30 p.m. on AMC
The guys travel to Hawaii in order to test
their abilities at a brewery, where they are
tasked with using their wits to find a way to
create a savory drink that will be judged by
beer connoisseurs to determine how well
they did. (HD)
Supermarket Superstar
10:30 p.m. on LIFE
A vegan model, a small business owner and
a busy single mother compete head-tohead, creating their signature sauces for
the judging panel, who then suggest
improvements and eventually choose one
winner that could end up in stores. (HD)

HIGHLIGHTS
The Green Mile
8:00 p.m. on AMC
The cynical veteran guard of a prison’s
death row struggles with a crisis of conscience when he begins to wonder whether
a kindhearted, simple-minded prisoner with
healing powers is actually guilty of murdering two girls. (HD)
Undercover Boss
8:00 p.m. on WLTX
Lynne Zappone, Chief Talent Officer of
Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, the world’s second-largest fried
chicken restaurant
chain, goes undercover and gets frustrated with an
employee’s lack of
Southern charm
behind the counter.
(HD)
Jackie (Toks OlaThe Neighbors
gundoye) jumps 8:31 p.m. on WOLO
in to help out
When a toughDebbie's purse
minded businessbusiness on "The woman offers
Neighbors," air- Debbie a chance to
ing Friday at
renew her purse
8:31 p.m. on
business Jackie
WOLO.
decides to help out,
yet when her negotiation skills work a bit too well, they find
themselves trying to produce an impossible
number of purses. (HD)
Continuum
10:00 p.m. on SYFY
Kiera is in a race against time as she
attempts to preserve her chance of getting
home and rescue Alec from himself at the
same time; Alec struggles with a difficult
decision between solving Kiera’s dilemma
or his own problem.
Shrek the Third
10:00 p.m. on TBS
When Fiona’s father becomes sick, Shrek is
seen as heir to the kingdom but doesn’t
want the crown, and he recruits his faithful
friends to locate the rebellious heir to
assume sovereignty, but the envious Prince
Charming has a plot up his sleeve. (HD)

English Premier League Soccer: Sunderland at Crystal Palace from Pregame
Selhurst Park z{| (HD)
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Ocean’s Eleven
8:00 p.m. on TNT
A professional thief gathers together a
group of criminal specialists to help him
carry out the meticulously planned robbery
of a trio of casinos in Las Vegas that belong
to a ruthless entrepreneur who is in a relationship with his ex-wife. (HD)
College Football
8:07 p.m. on WOLO
Georgia has five straight wins in the series,
but this is the first meeting between the
two schools since 2003, when Georgia
crushed Clemson, 30-0; Georgia quarterback Aaron Murray enters his senior season
with 28 wins as a starter. (HD)
Hell on Wheels
9:00 p.m. on AMC
Elam suddenly gets some help from Cullen
in searching for a dangerous criminal; the
town gets ready to
move down the
tracks, but an
explosion of chaos
causes problems
for all the citizens
of the Hell on
Wheels community. (HD)
The Makeover
An education
9:00 p.m. on
consultant (Julia
Hallmark
Stiles) tries to
After a failed
attempt at running transform a beer
vendor into a
for Congress, a
winning reform
driven education
consultant and her candidate in
"The Makebusiness partner
recruit a down-to- over," airing
Saturday at
earth beer vendor
to run for Congress 9 p.m. on
and help promote
Hallmark.
the cause that she
holds dear, and in the process fall in
love. (HD)
Catch Me If You Can
10:30 p.m. on TNT
A determined FBI agent tirelessly tracks a
masterful con artist who spends most of his
youth traveling the world while he lives on
forged checks and fake identities, and the
unlikely pair finds that they have a strangely
meaningful connection. (HD)

MOVIE HIGHLIGHTS
A
The Adventurous Blonde aaa ‘37
Glenda Farrell. Rival newspaper tries to get
even with a reporter but ends up in trouble.
NR (1:15) TCM Thu. 2:00pm.
Alien aaaa ‘79 Helen Horton. The
crew of a commercial space vessel is
stalked by a deadly alien parasite. R (2:30)
AMC Fri. 2:30am.

B
Big aaa ‘88 Tom Hanks. A boy makes a
wish to be an adult and wakes up in the
body of a 30-year-old man. PG (2:30) AMC
Thu. 3:00pm.
A Bronx Tale aaac ‘93 Robert De Niro.
A ‘60s bus driver struggles to bring up his
son right amid temptations. R (3:00) SPIKE
Mon. 2:00pm, 12:00am.

C
Carousel aaa ‘56 Gordon MacRae. A
carnival barker tries to change his rowdy
ways when he falls for a good woman. NR
(2:30) TCM Wed. 11:00pm.
The Citadel aaac ‘38 Robert Donat.
An impoverished doctor gives up his ideals

H
Hidden Away aaaa ‘13 Emmanuelle
Vaugier. A woman fakes her own death in
an attempt to escape her abusive husband.
NR (2:00) LIFE Wed. 8:00pm, 12:02am.
High Fidelity aaac ‘00 John Cusack.
A man revisits the women in his past to
find out why he is such a loser in love. R
(2:30) BRAVO Fri. 11:00am.

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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
aaac ‘89 Harrison Ford. In 1938,
Indiana Jones embarks on a quest to find
his father and the Holy Grail. PG-13 (2:49)
USA Sat. 6:06pm.

It Happened One Night aaac ‘34
Clark Gable. A runaway heiress meets a
reporter who agrees to help her escape her
father. NR (2:00) TCM Sun. 8:00pm.

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Ocean’s Eleven aaa ‘01 George
Clooney. An ex-con robs three Las Vegas
casinos to win over his ex-wife. PG-13
(2:30) TNT Sat. 8:00pm.
Out of the Past aaac ‘47 Robert
Mitchum. A private eye is entangled in murder and double dealings with a gangster.
NR (2:00) TCM Fri. 6:00am.